Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...During 1967 and 1968 he met regularly with Frenkil's firm and representatives of the AOC to press Frenkil's claims. Once, according to the federal investigation, he threatened an AOC lawyer, Russell Pettibone, with loss of his job if he failed to cooperate. When this strong-arm approach failed, he suggested that the attorney could have a better job if he played ball with Frenkil...
...episode of comic business with a plate of toast in the second act. But there are a few tiny points he should be more careful about. For instance, he slightly anticipates being stopped by the minister, when he ought not react until he actually feels the hand on his arm...
...Dole has come a long way to his role of Nixon's champion. As a second lieutenant with the 10th Mountain Division, he was severely wounded in Italy during World War II, and spent more than three years in Army hospitals. Unable to use his partially paralyzed right arm, he got through college and law school with the help of his wife, Phyllis, an occupational therapist who took his notes and wrote down his answers to examination questions. He has since taught himself to write with his left hand. He began his politica1 career in the Kansas state legislature...
...tribe. Mehta listened intently to the rhythm: the click of bottle-cap anklets on wildly swinging legs, the imperious clatter of bamboo sticks, the thunderclap of hands, the keening from scores of female throats. Then, having convinced himself that he had picked up the beat, he raised his practiced arm and for a few fascinating measures conducted some of the world's oldest and most primitive music...
Gesticulating vehemently, a North Carolina lawyer wound up a case several years ago with a massive sweep of his arm, lost his balance, and tumbled headfirst into the jury box. Another attorney in the state was blind, and after finishing his presentations, used to make his Seeing-Eye dog do cute tricks in order to distract the jury from what opposing lawyers were saying...