Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homage to the French President, soldiers prevented all but the official funeral procession from following the body to the cemetery. As Galante recounts it, an old peasant woman began to cry out: "He said everyone could be here! He said everyone!" Malraux stopped and took her by the arm. "Let her through," he said to one of the soldiers lining the road. "She speaks for France." The soldier stepped aside...
...brought into line with sharp reminders of their client status. Washington stumbled badly, however, when it leaked word that Secretary of State William Rogers had been privately warning delegates that a defeat on the China vote might endanger the $200 million a year that Washington contributes to the U.N. Arm-twisting is part of the game at the U.N.?and every other parliamentary body?but it is supposed to be done with subtlety...
While they were joined together to convert the non-Baptist Spaniards, the two battalions of missionaries were also learning something about each other. The Spaniards were bewildered at first by the sobbing, arm-flailing exhortations imported from Dixie. For their part, the Texans were embarrassed by the thimble-size glasses of wine passed out during the Spanish Baptists' Holy Supper. Teetotalers, they take grape juice...
Racing is not a sport with Julius Rudel. It is practically a way of life. Briefcase clutched in one hand, a tuxedo in a plastic bag slung over his arm for use later that night, he hurried out of his apartment on Manhattan's upper West Side one recent midday and jumped into a worn 1966 Chevy. A morning full of conferences had left him just ten minutes to get to a dress rehearsal of a new production of Carmen at Lincoln Center, 20 blocks south. "If we take the proper turns, we'll make all the lights...
...arm," he said, "does it really make any difference...