Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disappointed, I feel good about having such a fine man as Pierre for Senator." Cranston, too, promised he would support Salinger-but added that he would not drop a $2,000,000 libel suit against Pierre for making the campaign charge that Cranston had put the campaign-fund arm on inheritance-tax appraisers whom he had appointed...
...Unwary visitors commonly find themselves staring at bills for as much as $80 after a brief bout of drinking. One sucker discovered to his horror that he had been buying champagne for the whole house, including band and B-girls, and finally coughed up $600. Blackmail, extortion and strong-arm tactics complete the repertory, and in recent years many a waiter has become an owner himself, or else tucked away a small fortune before leaving the Raper for more respectable surroundings...
...Dodgers were in the doldrums. All spring long, Los Angeles' world champions had been mired deep in the second division. Their fielding was sloppy, their hitting spotty. The biggest disappointment of all was Pitcher Sandy Koufax, 28, whose golden left arm accounted for 25 victories in 1963. Sandy was having arm trouble. He had won only five games, while losing four, and Manager Walter Alston even demoted him briefly to the bullpen...
Looking fit and ruddy-faced, Eisenhower reminisced about his September 1955 heart attack. "One morning at two o'clock I had a pain. The doctors came and gave me something in the arm. I was soon under an oxygen tent. I felt rather amused that this could be happening to me." It was a week before doctors would let Ike even discuss any of the normal work of his office. Said Eisenhower: "When Sherman Adams finally came in, he had some tough ones. They kept the newspapers away from me so I couldn't see what the press...
...Americana-the Indianapolis 500 is mainly a dice with disaster. Drivers come and go, cars change, engines get bigger. The one constant is danger. In 54 years of Memorial Day racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 56 people have died. But nobody has to twist a driver's arm to compete. The prospect of instant fame and fortune is inducement enough -even though he knows, as Eddie Sachs once said, that "in the long run, death is the odds-on favorite...