Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate affair has made it very unpleasant for Nixonian Washington. As soon as an Administration official lifts his arm to point the finger, he finds an accusing finger poking him sharply in the back...
...without hearing a radio or seeing a newspaper. The?new Jesuit must still spend perhaps ten years in preparation, but he may live in fraternity-style surroundings in Berkeley, in Cambridge, Mass., or in Manhattan. Under the old rule of tactus, Jesuit seminarians were forbidden even to put an arm on the shoulder of a buddy; now they greet one another with warm abrazos...
...could choose to lead its cause. Charming yet fearless, Ervin is the Senate's foremost authority on the Constitution, a former state supreme court justice and one of the few legislators who prefer the hard work of personal research in quiet libraries to the hurly-burly of cloakroom arm-twisting. He has, in a sense, spent much of his career preparing for precisely this kind of fight...
Something of a maverick nuclear strategist, Iklé has specialized in the technical and political problems of arms control. He is credited with devising the "permissive action link," a top-secret device for making it physically impossible to arm a nuclear weapon without a release signal from a remote authorizing source. He questions what he calls the "obsolete dogmas" of U.S. nuclear strategy, specifically the idea that the U.S. missile forces must stand ready to be launched at a moment's notice from land or sea, and be capable of destroying much of the Soviet population. Instead of maintaining...
...statue of Darius should provide many missing details. Unearthed at the entrance of a newly discovered hilltop building near a palace built by Darius, the figure is executed in the fashionable Egyptian style of the day: dressed in robes, the king has his left foot forward, his left arm against his chest, and wears on his belt a dagger in a sheath decorated with winged bulls. According to the inscriptions, Darius ("the King of Kings, the King of the People, the King of this Great Earth") had the statue carved in Egypt and shipped to Susa, where he personally consecrated...