Word: arms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel so all alone. Our's is simply the change of space. The place is the same. He saw himself across the street and waved suddenly, remembering that he was not alone. He waved at some bleating sheep folding their fleece in a mauve halo above the city. His arm disappeared...
Scott left the couple alone in the living room. Mildred thought what the hell and leaned her head on Nathan's shoulder. Nathan was frightened, and placed his arm around her as if to comfort rather than caress...
...result was what the French call a dialogue des sourds (dialogue of the deaf), a meeting marked by arm waving, table thumping-and little, if any, progress. Union and government negotiators could not even agree on what to talk about, a divergence that was hardly surprising in a country where workers and management traditionally view each other as implacable enemies...
Despite Black's fears, the court made it plain that it was approving only demonstrations that do not sabotage the normal school routine. The wearing of arm bands in Des Moines, Fortas said, was a symbolic act "closely akin to pure speech" -and it did not provoke any major disorder. Presumably, the court may not take as tolerant a view of more troublesome demonstrations in the future. And its reasoning may well reach beyond public schools to college campuses, where minorities have effectively prevented other students from getting the education that they or their parents are paying...
...going, however, the action quickly developed into a free-for-all. Whirling around the track at 30 m.p.h., the skaters shoved, tripped and slugged one another with abandon. The Braves' Ronnie Robinson, Sugar Ray's son and the villain on the current tour, repeatedly locked his arm around an opponent's head and then flipped seat-first onto the track, apparently crunching the noggin under his bottom. He also excelled at kicking rivals in the mouth with his skates and beating them over the head with his helmet...