Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremist leader who was killed in the Golden Temple fighting. His Khomeini-like messianic appeal included public speeches glorifying violent means aimed at acquiring a separate Sikh nation. "It should be clear to all Sikhs...that we are slaves and want liberation at any cost. To achieve this end, arm yourselves and prepare for a war and wait for orders." Bhindranwale proclaimed in a public speech. In reference to two Hindu slayings. Bhindranwale was reported by the India Times to have said, "whoever performed these great feats deserves to be honored by the Akal Takht, the highest seat...
...joined the President on a helicopter trip to vote in Solvang, Calif., but tottered as they left the polling place. Then her knees buckled as she climbed down the helicopter steps in Santa Monica on the way back to Los Angeles; Reagan and a Secret Service agent grabbed her arm to keep her from falling...
...Shula in mind of Nick Buoniconti, the little Italian linebacker of the '70s. "The way the message didn't take long to go from Nick's brain to his feet, it didn't take long to go from Dan's brain to his arm...
...Each arm and leg is a continuous piece of birch, slender treads bent into a pair of supple, bulging rectangles-no angular severity for Aalto. The continuous seat and back, like a toboggan doing gymnastics, is a sheet of birch plywood bent 110° in the middle and rolled at each end. It is a perfect conceit of a chair, at once lean and voluptuous. It is also reasonably accommodating to human beings: the scrolls are functional flourishes, each a great wooden spring. In this, more than in any other piece, Aalto's devotion to wood is its saving...
...American public, the Hinckley acquittal became the symbol of excessive, and indulged, violence. To Caplan it is neither a judicial coup or rallying point, just a necessary working of an inviolate standard. Administration fingers, tinkering with the defense, will only reveal an injudicious strong arm...