Word: armors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same issue, Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor Social Psychology, criticized the anti-busing conclusions of an article printed last summer in The Public Interest by David J. Armor, professor of Sociology...
...least two, since blazes were set almost simultaneously on different floors. A besieging army of 200 uniformed policemen, detectives, sharpshooters and volunteers soon surrounded the motel. As the cordon tightened, the assailants found refuge behind the concrete walls of the rooftop's boiler room and stairwell casements. An armor-plated Marine helicopter made repeated passes as the cops tried to blast through the walls, but the sniper shots kept coming. Finally, eleven hours after the violence had begun, one lone sniper darted under the glare of a helicopter spotlight, ran about 30 ft. in a zigzag pattern across...
...urge and his life. But to secure Anthony's widow (Catherine Helmond) Brown must don Anthony's mask to appropriate Anthony's passion. Thus a transfer of identities is completed. Finally, each character's mask is a device for social camouflage. Worn, it is protective armor against the hostility and misunderstanding of the world. Dropping it marks the true and vulnerable self...
Since April, when really serious digging began, no fewer than 1,000 major artifacts have been unearthed. The catalogue ranges from ancient Indian relics to a wide sampling of colonial Americana that includes a rusty piece of armor, flintlocks, riding spurs, china and cutlery, locks and keys, handwrought iron nails and pins, a winebottle seal and even Venetian glass beads (apparently for barter with the Indians...
Carpetbagger. It was no small task for Robinson to don what Rickey described as an "armor of humility." As a track, basketball, football and baseball star at U C.L.A., he was a belligerent competitor who always prided himself on "reacting spiritedly when insulted or scorned." As a lieutenant in the Army, he had, in fact, been threatened with a court-martial for refusing to sit in the back of a bus. The toughest task of his career, he once recalled, was learning "to conquer and control myself...