Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from nattily dressed black pimps in high heels to gaudily painted transvestites to the "Christmas-tree man," whose head, coat, shut and pants are festooned with tinsel and trinkets. Snaking stealthily through this Brueghelian scene in search of likely prey are a host of Manhattan's pickpockets, strong-arm muggers, and flimflam artists, as well as an occasional rapist...
...ultimate authority-Carrero Blanco quickly replaced those officials he thought were liberal, or even slightly forward looking, with ironclad conservatives. "Carrero Blanco never had an original idea in his life," said one Spanish politician last week, "unless one defines as original the decision to be the unquestioning strong right arm of General Franco...
...units, down a startling 118,000 from a year earlier. Layoffs are also spreading into supplier industries: Davidson Rubber Co., the largest employer in Dover, N.H., will furlough 200 of its 1,400 employees for at least two months because of waning orders from the automakers who buy its arm rests and other components. In Pennsylvania, 3,000 employees of Leeds & Northrup, an electronics firm, will be idled for a week as their plant shuts down to save fuel...
Harvard lost a key match at 158 lbs. Jim Gebhard, who injured his left arm in practice last week, had to wear a brace. He was thus weakened and limited in mobility. In spite of the brace and injury, he wrestled a strong match, but dropped the contest...
Inevitably, you run into Hortensia. Although she has been in the town only eight days, her presence is well-established. She springs forward in her long black combat boots when she sees you and grasps you by the arm. "Where have you been? You have not come to visit us," she reproaches. She guides you to where the men are drinking in the late afternoon sun. Don Calixto toasts your arrival...