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Word: arming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional arm twisting: dangling teacher salary increases, calling in campaign debts. Eventually he brought it off with remarkable success both for himself and his high school seniors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cry for Leadership | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Unfortunately, their new movie, The Kids Are Alright and its soundtrack album don't nearly do justice to the band's legendary performing style. Peter Townshend plays his guitar by rotating his arm like a vertical helicopter blade; Moon grins and leers through drum solos; John Entwistle, like all bass players, stands expressionless. You can see all this in The Kids Are Alright; but you miss the music. For some reason, Jeff Stein--who put the movie together--chose a few very good film sequences and mixed them up, without any sense of order, with a lot of trashy ones...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: My Generation, Past Thirty | 7/27/1979 | See Source »

Byrd presented him with a record album of his own bluegrass fiddling. Brezhnev then took Byrd by the arm-"he was a little unsteady," Byrd said-and they walked together into the vacation lodge and sat down at a long table in the splendidly paneled conference room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: From Russia with Hope | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...will read the list." Brezhnev then took Byrd's arm and gave him a tour of the grounds, taking him up the hill some 200 yards to a small cabin. This was a retreat that Stalin had built but had never used, said Brezhnev...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: From Russia with Hope | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...gently into the good night. He seldom does when he is tossed out of a game. He strut ted back to the dugout, only to find a cause for another epic tirade. Baltimore Pitcher Sammy Stewart had started to throw to Catcher Rick Dempsey, hoping to keep his arm warm until tempers cooled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baltimore's Soft-Shelled Crab | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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