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Word: armes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always say the same thing: 'I'm going to end up pregnant,' " complained her husband. A 36-year-old librarian from Dieppe said that she had accepted the fact that she was frigid "the way others have a crooked nose or are missing an arm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The Agony and Ecstasy | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...back Euripides. In the Shevelove version, Bernard Shaw substitutes. As his companion, Dionysus takes along his obese, grumbling Sancho Panza-like servant Xanthias (Michael Vale). They have their slapstick encounters, not only with the cranky Charon, who speaks like a movie gold prospector, but with enticing houris, underworld strong-arm men, termagants, drunks and, finally, the haughty, unamused Pluto (Jerome Dempsey), god of the underworld. It seems that Shakespeare sits on the throne of honor as the No. 1 dramatist in Hades. (In Aristophanes' original it is Aeschylus.) A battle royal of quotations ensues between Shakespeare (Jeremy Geidt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Splash-In on the Styx | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...Park is not worried about how his defense will stack up against the opposition. The infield of Jim Thomas, Ed Durso, Ric LaCivita and Leigh Hogan, as well as the strong arm of catcher Dan Williams, have been impressive and Park sees the defense and team speed as the keys to success this year...

Author: By William E. Stedman jr., | Title: Crimson Batmen Visit Omaha | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

...battery was perhaps the Crimson's best asset with not one, but three ace pitchers and a catcher with a very good arm in Dan Williams. Besides Driscoll, pitching coach Bob Lincoln could throw Milt Holt who lost only one of nine contests, or Mike O'Malley who stepped into the captain's shoes and pitched very good ball in spite of not getting the wins at first. Against Yale, for instance, O'Malley did not allow a single earned run only to have the Eli pitcher toss a no-hitter and O'Malley took a 2-1 loss...

Author: By James W. Reinig, | Title: By Jiminy | 5/31/1974 | See Source »

...else condemning men who have given very great service to this country." Nixon recalled how painful it had been for him to ask for the resignations of H.R. Haldeman, the White House chief of staff, and John Ehrlichman, the President's top domestic adviser. "I cut off one arm," said Nixon, "then the other arm, and [that] was about as rugged a period as anybody could be through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: A Stout If Rambling Defense | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

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