Word: arming
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...Nutcracker and the Mouse-King. Many surprises and creative additions strengthen this central Battle Scene. Mice jump from the stage out into the audience. A dramatic pause after the death of the Mouse-King adds drama and a touch of sorrow, followed by the comic relief of Red Cross arm-banded mice attempting CPR and carrying him away on a stretcher. The battle itself is fought with gigantic forks instead of swords, and cheese bits serve as grenades. A child dressed as a gingerbread cookie gets her arm bitten off by one of the mice...
...number of us read it, it gives us the authority to hire and to operate our office at arm's length relative to the manager," said Election Commissioner Sondra Scheir...
Clinton, however, has got much better at wooing and arm twisting Democrats, - who, for their part, are getting the message that they dare not bring down their President. And if he still cannot muster a majority of Democrats, as was the case with NAFTA, the President is now willing to reach out to Republicans -- meanwhile dealing enthusiastically for votes from both sides...
Hostile stares and epithets were the least of their problems when Edgar and Jean Cahn first dated. Twice the couple -- he a white Jew, she a black Baptist -- were arrested simply for walking the streets of Baltimore arm in arm. When they wed in 1957, Maryland law barred interracial marriages, so the ceremony was held in New York City. Although Jean had converted by then, the only rabbi who would agree to officiate denied them a huppah and the traditional breaking of glass. As law students at Yale in the 1960s, the couple lived in a basement because no landlord...
...what it has done. American constitutional history sends us the clear message that the purpose of the law is more important than the meaning of the law. When the congressional reactionaries realize that fact, a country which once sought to protect its citizens from harm by allowing them to arm themselves will restrict that privilege to achieve the same...