Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uruguay's Foreign Minister, José Espalier, a fluent orator who was trained for the law but never practiced it, who at 70 looks like anything but the rich man that he is. His hat is always crushed, due to his habit of carrying it under his left arm, and over his wing collar his cheeks are always bristly since he uses a barber's clippers instead of a razor...
Councilman Matthew Woll last week defended this strong-arm action as an "emergency" move based on a "doctrine of assumed and implied considerations," after which effort the dapper, reactionary A. F. of L. vice president collapsed from exhaustion, was hospitalized...
...sentences and $25 fines. The Negroes were enslaved, it was charged, because Peacher was short of labor due to a strike of cotton choppers in the vicinity. Best Government witness was Winfield Anderson, cowering 51-year-old Negro who sat in the witness chair with his paralyzed right arm hanging limp at his side. Witness Anderson testified that he was sitting on the front porch of his home, which he owns, when "De Law" accosted him, asked him where he worked. Anderson replied that he did not work, but lived on $10 a week he received as compensation...
...just missing the ball. On third down, Frank passed again, this time from Harvard's 48-yd. line. Sprinting down the field, Kelley turned his head at the 10-yd. line and found the ball where it belonged, right above his shoulder. He tucked it under his arm, sprinted across the goal line. A moment later, Humphrey's place-kick brought what turned out to be the winning point...
Sportswriters are accustomed to writing mysteriously about clever football players. Kelley's smartness is not mysterious at all. To effect his touchdown against Princeton last fortnight, instead of dodging Princeton's safety man, Jack White, Kelley bowled him over with a swinging straight-arm. Last week, Kelley explained this play. Knowing White was a faster runner than himself, Kelley had reasoned that, even if he dodged successfully, White would catch up with him. The only safe way was the way that looked most risky...