Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Obukhov implied that Andrei's treatment was not his fault, but he was a victim of circumstances. I walked out of the hospital. A nurse suddenly appeared, leading Andrei by the arm. He was wearing the same light coat in which he had been taken away in early May and his beret. It didn't seem as if he had lost weight; he looked almost bloated. We embraced, in tears. We got in the car. We just sat and wept with our arms around each other. About 20 minutes passed...
...solution, Reagan said, lies in steps to "keep the United States at arm's distance from the South African regime, while keeping America's beneficent influence at work bringing about constructive change...
Many Americans mistakenly believe that the Arm & Hammer line of baking soda, detergents and deodorizers is owned by Industrialist Armand Hammer, 88. Irked by the common confusion, the high-profile chairman of Occidental Petroleum reportedly tried a few years ago to buy the label from its owner, Church & Dwight of Princeton, N.J. But now Hammer is at least a minority Arm & Hammer proprietor, after Occidental gained a slice of ownership in Church & Dwight by a new joint venture. Under the scheme, Church & Dwight received a 50% share in a potassium-carbonate plant owned by Occidental in Muscle Shoals...
...pieces in a wicker basket)." To this day the author has "no memory of the incident at all; only of having been told about it . . ." But at the age of eight he had a very accessible dream: "I saw the body of a hanged man dangling from the arm of a scaffold on a hill. When the wind caused the corpse to turn in the air, I saw that it was my face -- rotted and picked by the birds, but obviously mine. And then the corpse opened its eyes and looked at me." Permutations of both incidents would turn...
After last week's currency arm twisting, some such gesture might be needed to add a semblance of calm to the world monetary scene. As Robert Hormats, a vice president at the Goldman Sachs investment firm, puts it, "If some greater perception of unity doesn't come out of these meetings, the markets will be in turmoil." Most money traders probably felt that they had had quite enough turmoil already...