Word: arming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last spring, union officials charged the club with using strong-arm tactics against the strikers--including having workers dump water on the picketing employees...
...losses, on their own, are not a thoroughly terrible thing. Sure, they aren't a merry walk in the park, but they also are not usually cause to cut off one's right arm in agony...
...ways Bloom ridicules and despises. And Bloom's view produces chapter titles such as "Freud: A Shakespearean Reading" and "Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare," in which the actual works and words of the upstart authors are wrenched out of context and forced into hypothetical bouts of cross-generational arm wrestling...
...proper method of garbage disposal in the Middle Ages was throwing it out of the open window. Outside, the communal pigs fed in the streets. In fact, the tradition of a male accompanying a female arm in arm down the street was to protect her from flying bones and slops...
...style is hard to mistake. After a flirtation with harder-edged coverage a few years ago, the show has dropped almost all pretense of being anything but an arm of the Hollywood publicity machine. It fills the air time with goggle-eyed "behind-the-scenes" visits to Hollywood sets, fawning interviews with stars, and other fluff indistinguishable from advertising. Sometimes it is advertising. An "exclusive first look" at a new movie on E.T. (last week's story on the new Schwarzenegger comedy Junior, for instance) often turns out to be nothing but the studio-made trailer for the film...