Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Williams, who admits he is "prejudiced against anything that isn't white," had claimed that he was acting on orders of the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, a white supremacist group that authorities broke up in 1985. Behind bars, Williams insisted that was loose talk, and the Secret Service was inclined to agree. Said Secret Service Spokesman Rich Adams: "There is no organized plot out there to assassinate Jesse Jackson...
Along Pennsylvania Avenue, a powerful sympathizer muses that "Ed Meese is one of the nicest people I ever met. He is decent, hardworking, trying to help people all the time. But he does some dumb things. I hope when the report comes out the President puts his arm around Ed and says, 'This vindicates Ed. Now he's tired and wants out. I agree...
President Reagan says that his Central America policy is designed to promote democracy and freedom in the region. But given that Central America is still dominated by strong-arm dictators and torn by revolution, one must ask: were these Reagan's real goals in Central America? Or was he trying to reduce the economies of Central America to a complete shambles and to cripple the region forever, like we did to Vietnam? If this was the strategy in Central America, the Reagan administration has been highly successful...
...suddenly he was running. "After all the times we talked," he said ruefully, throwing his slight yet muscular arm around my shoulder. Already Eugene McCarthy, with much less to risk, had had the courage to risk it. He had exposed Johnson's soft underbelly, and now Kennedy was motioning to him to stand aside. Kennedy, who had refused to fracture the party, had split the antiwar movement. There was grumbling across the land and throughout the hastily chartered campaign plane...
...game made popular in Nicaragua by U.S. Marines in the early part of the century, to explain what he feels needs to happen. "What do you do when a pitcher is getting hit out of the ball park?" he asks. "You change him and try someone with a fresh arm...