Word: armored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ulbricht's overconfidence sagged in October, when U.S. tanks probed the Friedrichstrasse crossing point and Soviet armor had to be brought to the border for the first time since the 1953 uprising in East Germany. Then Khrushchev dealt Ulbricht a severe blow by continuing his promises to sign a peace treaty with East Germany but failing to set a new deadline for the one that expired last December...
...toys with her ankle-high mouse. She lifts him to the glacier-like promontories of her bosom, and poor Antonio drops his umbrella into the crevasse. She plucks it out disdainfully, like a black toothpick, and darts it at him. As the fantasy continues, Dr. Antonio dons medieval armor to tilt against this she-devil whom he must kill for fear of loving. Next morning, white-coated asylum attendants pry the demented doctor loose from the top of the billboard...
...never gives his forces more than two days' supplies and ammunition, lest they turn on him. As in most guerrilla wars, the army controls the roads, particularly during the day, while the Kurds control the countryside, especially at night. The army rumbles up and down with its Soviet armor, smashing rebel roadblocks, while the Kurds move swiftly cross-country in small bands, armed mostly with light machine guns and mortars...
...grew more apocalyptic in his comments on slavery as war approached. "He created himself as a poetic figure," writes Wilson, "and thus imposed himself on the nation. We have, in general, accepted the epic that Lincoln directed and lived and wrote." Some Northerners found chinks in the abolitionist armor. Harriet Beecher Stowe became the scourge of the South by writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, but her next nine novels treated Calvinism as the enemy. Married to a Presbyterian minister who had visions of the Devil, worried that her son might be damned because he had died unrepentant, she pleaded...
Horror cracks the armor of unfeeling that encloses the father's heart. In accepting his guilt for his daughter's destruction, he finds his humanity. He turns to his suffering son and comforts him. Out of the depths, in wonder and gratitude, the boy cries as the film ends: "Father talked...