Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Claude L. Weaver '65, a Dunster House student currently on a year's leave, and two other civil rights workers have been held in a Jackson, Miss., jail since the night after Christmas on a charge of strong-arm robbery stemming from a dispute over a cab fare...
...grown accustomed to the loneliness of the operatorless elevator, they have also developed a conditioned reflex. They instinctively slap any metal object-typewriter, watercooler, doorknob-with the flat of the hand before using. Otherwise, little blue sparks fly from fingertips and a nasty, if harmless, jolt runs up the arm. In fact, even the most cautious palm-slapper sometimes yields a small tingle...
...month after nervous month, Elizabeth Taylor kept Eddie Fisher at arm's length as a kind of singing duck. It would never do to dump him, not while Richard Burton was still resisting. If Taylor had divorced Fisher and Burton had gone back to Sybil, Taylor would have lost ten-tenths of her pretty face. But if the affair had collapsed while both were still married, then it would have been just another office romance...
...oddest graduate school in the U.S. is a far-out arm of the University of Chicago called the Committee on Social Thought. Physically, it is a dingy office under the eaves of the social science building. Its faculty, which includes Novelist Saul Bellow and Political Scientist Hannah Arendt, numbers only eleven. But its goal is as big as the world. While other graduate schools atomize knowledge, this one aims toward "a unification of knowledge and a revealing of the human being as a whole...
Though the visit to Egypt was only the first leg of his scheduled two-month swing through Africa, the round of sightseeing clearly tired the ailing, 67-year-old Chou. For the first time, Westerners noticed that he has only partial use of his right arm, which was usually clutched tightly over his stomach. At one point, after climbing a flight of stairs at an Aswan power station, the ashen-faced Premier staggered off into a corner as if he were about to faint...