Word: arms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic and once in medic. This Communist dude with his little flying cap, he's the Communist guerrilla and he's in the jungle with his executive officer who looks an awful lot like Fidel Castro. They have this salute where they close their fist and shoot out their arm. It reminds you a little of Nazi Germany, just enough so you know the tie-in is there...
...recalled giving money to Irving Brown, of the American Federation of Labor, "to pay off his strong-arm squads in Mediterranean ports, so that American supplies could be unloaded against the opposition of Communist dock workers." Braden said that CIA funds also went to Victor Reuther, brother and assistant of President Walter Reuther of the United Automobile Workers, and to Jay Lovestone, of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, for the purpose of helping various anti-Communist unions abroad. His article is highly self-flattering and oversimplified, but most of his statements appear to be correct. A.F.L.-C.I.O...
Certain other contributions are considered "stepping out of line," says McMahon. "Johnny was doing a thing once about how mosquitoes only go after the really passionate people. Without thinking, I slapped my arm. It was instinctive. But it killed his punch line." For restraining himself, McMahon is well reimbursed. Just as Announcer Hugh Downs rose from the brow of Jack Paar to become a TV "personality" (Today, Concentration), McMahon is now a "star." He is host of his own daily daytime show, Snap Judgment, handles NBC's Monitor mike on Saturday afternoons, and plays "spokesman" for Budweiser beer...
With its imprint being available regardless of an author's university affiliation, the Press is not so much an arm of Harvard as a parasite. But if there are two equally good works and only one can be published, and one of them is by a Harvard author, that one will be chosen, Wilson says. And the Press publishes numerous works for such Harvard organizations as the Russian Research Center and the Harvard-Yenching Institute...
Those that do reach hospitals often get there just in time to have an arm or leg amputated. "Patients pack their wounds with water buffalo dung, and, by the time they get to a doctor, amputation is the only alternative," Dr. Constable explained...