Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faculty members were allowed to stand. Federal officials and a presidential commission studied the shootings, but withheld a decision. Last week the Board of Christian Social Concerns of the United Methodist Church, the nation's second largest Protestant denomination, sought to reopen the case. The board, the activist arm of the relatively conservative church, issued a report suggesting that at least some of the Guardsmen on the Kent State campus had decided in advance to fire on the students and, on a prearranged signal, opened a fusillade that left four young people dead and nine others injured...
Despite the comic-opera façade, however, Tubman made some substantial contributions to Africa's oldest independent black state. His rule was characterized by both stability and a medicum of physical progress. By means of education and arm-twisting, Tubman did all he could to wipe out the differences between native tribesmen and the elitist Americo-Liberians (descendants of Liberia's freed-slave founders...
...Guests were pushed against a wall and shot by impromptu firing squads. The King's brother, Prince Moulay Abdullah, was hit in the arm during one such volley, then left by his would-be executioners when he fell and played dead. But it became evident that the King was meant to be spared. At one point cadets burst into his sanctuary and ordered him outside with the other surviving guests. A young soldier, nervously fingering the trigger of his rifle, took Hassan aside Alone, he kissed the King's hand. Hassan was astounded. "We are cadets...
LARRY HINSON, 26, a string-bean-lean blond from Douglas, Ga., won the 1966 N.C.A.A. golf title while a senior at East Tennessee State. Though his left arm is slightly withered from a boyhood bout with polio, he is solidly accurate from tee to green. In 1969, his first full year on the tour, he won $54,267. Last season he pocketed $120,897 and was the eighth-highest scorer on the tour. "I want to win the big four -our Open, the British Open, the P.G.A. and the Masters-then I'll retire. I know what that sounds...
Driven back steadily from cellar to shed to ditch to ruin, her unit was chopped from 30 to five. She heard women screaming just across the road as the Russians raped them during the height of the battle, saw an arm floating magically through the air with no person attached to it, watched in horror as a chicken cautiously circled the corpse of a child and prepared to peck the eyes out. A bullet nicked her; an exploding shell blasted her senseless. Von Demandowsky was a married man, but as the world broke up around them, the lovers...