Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just four years later, De Gaulle marched into Paris triumphant, the unchallenged leader of France. How did he do it? With threats, bluster and a deafness to the word no. De Gaulle cajoled enough weapons from the Allies to arm the Free French troops, 7,000 of whom had been recruited by midsummer 1940. When he felt that Churchill and Roossevelt were neglecting him, he courted Stalin and threatened to send French forces to the Soviet front. Shut out of the planning for Dday, he retaliated by creating his own civil administration for liberated France. In the end, the general...
When he is out bowling in the first reel, Harry's vision suddenly blurs and his arm goes numb. And so do one's expectations for the movie. For grim experience warns that when otherwise hearty middle-aged males (Harry happily wields the wrecker's ball on construction sites) suffer alarming physical symptoms right after the opening credits, more than unemployment and a heart attack are sure to follow. The crisis will be the occasion for lugubrious but ultimately uplifting reflections on a number of important matters: aging and mortality, the relationship between men and women...
...before we say so definitely, play it again, that ice dance performed by the two Brits. I don't think that I caught it all the first time. I think I missed one of the turns of her head, or an extension of his arm, the way they came together or apart...
...begun to shed his personal reserve and warm to the task. After watching him leap up from his lunch to table-hop at Newick's restaurant in Newington, N.H., Hart's state coordinator, Jeanne Shaheen, smiled, "A month ago, we'd have to have twisted his arm before he'd do that." Lacking the cash to buy a word processor, his campaign is sending follow-up letters written in longhand. Volunteers have mailed out 30,000, and expect to post 20,000 more...