Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is not good theater: the characters are merely pasteboard stand-ins for the absent playwright. And while it may be less obvious, it is equally true that neither is this good politics. Rather than bring us closer to the truth, the play helps us keep it at arm's length. The thrust it makes into our lives is precisely that which we are most adept at parrying: the verbal scrutiny of motive and effect...
...took me by the arm...
Stone speaks Spanish in Miami's Cuban community, plays the harmonica for the country boys, and even broke an arm leaping over a tennis net for a photographer. Both candidates are conservative. Eckerd wants to cut spending; Stone wants "Uncle Sucker" to stop the foreign aid giveaways. A tossup...
...even harsher rebuke to Ford's leadership, the House voted to cut off further military aid to Turkey. There were mixed reasons for the move: the use of U.S. arms in Turkish attacks on Cyprus; irritation with the Turks over the resumption of poppy planting; pressure from a vocal number of Greek-Americans; and congressional unwillingness to blindly follow Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's recommendations. The Senate had taken the same action, then, under heavy White House arm-twisting, agreed to delay the ban for 60 days. Ford had termed any curtailment "a misguided and extremely harmful...
...study conducted among 1,700 women at 34 institutions suggests that the operation, which can produce lifelong pain, weakness and periodic swelling in the affected arm, may be unnecessary in some cases. Doctors divided women whose cancers had not yet been found by clinical examination to have infiltrated the lymph nodes into three groups and gave one radical mastectomies, another total mastectomies (removal of the entire breast but no other tissue) coupled with radiation, and the third total mastectomies but no other treatment...