Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reaching London, Edward VIII drove to Buckingham Palace, breakfasted with Queen Mary and his sister the Princess Royal. Then a crowd gathered outside saw the Queen, her pallid face working with grief, leave the Palace on the arm of her son, after having resided there 25 years. Blue-coated Bobbies saluted, scarlet-clad Palace sentries presented arms, many women in the crowd wept, men cheered in hoarse, choked voices and Queen Mary with a visible effort just managed a slight wave of her white-gloved hand...
...psychogalvanometer is more comfortable than the polygraph, whose subject has a sphygmomanometer (blood pressure meter) strapped with oppressive tightness on his arm. Neither machine will work on madmen...
...Lieut. Tommy Rose, holder of the England-South Africa record, smashed his landing gear, withdrew. With five planes left in the race, Capt. Stanley Halse, South African War ace took the lead. Apparently sure of victory, he ran into veldt fires, lost his way, cracked up with a dislocated arm on an ant-hill in Southern Rhodesia. A similar mishap overtook another entrant at Mpulungu near Lake Tanganyika, while a third was grounded at Khartoum with piston trouble, later crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes in the air, one a big, twin-motored Envoy flown by Pilot...
...acquaintances, sat down side by side, chatted amiably while news cameras flashed. Each one listened attentively, applauded warmly as the other delivered an unwontedly temperate state ment of his Party's case. Speeches over, they left the platform arm in arm...
Added General Asensio as he sat with the other Militia officers in arm chairs placed in the street behind a barricade of sandbags: "We of the Government are taking great care to keep losses as low as possi- ble. They are now desperate men in the Alcázar fighting for their lives without food, water, or sleep-they'll have to surrender shortly...