Word: armloads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jawaharlal Nehru dismounted at Birla House, a large English-style cottage, and strode across the green lawn in the glittering afternoon sunshine that drenched the surrounding fir trees and the distant snowy peaks of the Himalayas. A line of Tibetan officials bowed to Nehru, presented him with an armload of ceremonial white scarves. The curtains parted in the main doorway, and out stepped the smiling Dalai Lama for his first meeting with Nehru since the God-King of Tibet fled the Red Chinese reconquest of his homeland (TIME, April 13). "How are you?" asked Nehru. Answered the Dalai Lama...
...week after a year. The 37% voted down the settlement, 877 to 772, although it had been agreed upon by employers and union negotiators, and the picket lines went up. The papers still managed to get out issues for sale at their buildings. Enterprising newsboys bought copies by the armload, scalped them for as much as $1 each in bars; a record store pushed up its sales 45% by giving away a paper with every purchase. But all the papers finally gave up after two days when the printers refused to cross the picket lines, and daily printed news...
...Tiger. In Taipei, Formosa, after Bus Driver Lien Maying bit a hole in a passenger's hand when he tried to board her bus with an armload of vegetables, the judge ordered her to pay $6 damages, observed: "It was not ladylike...
...Detroit one afternoon last week, a bored Republican campaign worker dumped an armload of four-page election handbills into two conveniently empty newspaper racks. In a few hours, passers-by had snapped up all the campaign tabloids, deposited $3.52 in the cash boxes...
...them women, ran for their lives, many of them crashed into the encircling wire fence. Some rebounded toward the single open gate; others climbed over; still others, with terror's unnatural strength, uprooted the fence and crawled under. Worker Mildred Reed dashed from the fiery plant with an armload of detonators, was knocked down ten times by flying splinters, but clung irrationally to her burden...