Word: arming
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...every few months, the Qixia men would call with an update, reminding me of some of the grim realities beyond the city's caf?s and marble-lined lobbies. Another village chief has been jailed, they would tell me. Two more have been beaten up, one so badly his arm dangles like string from his body...
...Baozhong, the farmer whose arm was crippled by a previous beating, told me of Liang's suicide, I heard someone screaming at him in the background. It was his wife, and she was telling him to get off the phone. Talking to me would only bring more trouble. Already, Yu had been jailed once and not been given the land usually apportioned to Qixia families when they have a child. Money was tight. But Yu kept talking. "I tell you, English-language journalist," he said, "I cannot accept what they have done to us. Even if if takes 10 years...
...mostly undertakes the education - actually we'd better make that the civilization - of the eponymous Venus (Jodie Whittaker, a young actress making an utterly fearless debut). She's Ian's grandniece, up from the provinces and supposed to be tending the old guy - cooking, cleaning, giving him an arm to lean on. She's hopeless at all these tasks, and a potty-mouthed layabout besides. Nevertheless , Maurice takes a mentoring shine to her, perhaps seeing in her something of himself, independent and instinctive. He finds her a job (posing nude for an art class), takes her to the theater, even...
...have to have the right type of forces for us to sustain potentially long-term capabilities against an enemy," says Odierno, whose son lost an arm while on combat duty in Baghdad. "We've heard talk here about the long war and that we have enemies out there that are against the way of life of the United States [and] will continue to attack the way of life of the United States. And this is not something that's going to go on for one, two, three more years - but will go on potentially for five, 10, 15, 20 years...
...leadership needs to implement a mechanism for arranging student services within the UC’s current two-committee framework. It does not need to bring back the CLC, nor does it need another third arm such as an "Outreach and Services Committee"—an idea which was proposed and rejected last spring. We do not know precisely how the UC ought to handle soliciting and selecting bids from third parties. It could be done by the UC’s Finance Committee (FiCom), or by a FiCom subcommittee, or by the president and vice president themselves...