Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end, J.J. was still working tirelessly, finding chamber pots and corked champagne bottles, a single shoe, and a shiny-handled safe sporting an ornate crest. Alvin was called in to try and open the safe with its robot arm, but failed. Still on the agenda were plans to investigate new areas of the Titanic's main section, as well as debris from the wreck. "I'm tickled by how well Jason Jr. has done," said Ballard. "We're really in great shape...
...effort boosted state control and planning. The victorious British had marshaled their might in a total war effort by making the private sector a virtual arm of the government. They thus became used to the state's telling the private sector what to produce, and this continued after the war. When the fighting stopped, most of Europe lay in ruins, and the government began directing postwar reconstruction. The British steel industry and Renault, France's largest automaker, were among the ventures nationalized...
...minutes later, she and her new husband emerged from the church, and Best Man John F. Kennedy Jr. blew his sister a kiss. Jackie, wearing a fitted, pale lime green sheath, bit her lip and struggled to hold back tears as she walked out of the church on the arm of Uncle Ted. He has walked other nieces down other aisles, and his avuncular presence is depended upon and appreciated. Still, one can safely guess that the old Kennedy New Frontiersmen sitting in the church were musing not just of weddings and brides and grooms but of the father...
Agnes de Mille, who choreographed such classics as Oklahoma! and Carousel, now 80 and frail, vowed to walk to the stage for her medal. She asked for the help of one young Marine, preferably "handsome and unmarried." She needed the additional arm of a naval officer, but she proudly made it, while the audience applauded all the way. Alan Lomax, 71, who helped America discover Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie, explained as he left the White House on that special day that he had gathered "the voices of the voiceless Americans" to bring to the President...
...19th century, English explorer met the sister-in-law of a local chief and noted, "She was another of those wonders of obesity, unable to stand excepting on all fours." He then cajoled the large lady into giving him permission to measure her and dutifully reported the results: "Round arm, 1 ft. 11 in.; chest, 4 ft. 4 in.; thigh, 2 ft. 7 in.; calf, 1 ft. 8 in.; height...