Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thirteen," said Karen, who was standing behind the Black man. He lifted his hand, paused for a moment, and then dropped his arm...
...says Priscilla. "We go to the malls, and people look at us, and some give us a look of approval or disapproval, but it doesn't stop us from holding hands. Sometimes people see us, and they think, 'Oh, nice. He can afford a housekeeper.' When Robert puts his arm around my waist, they're in shock. 'He's having an affair with his housekeeper...
While Hezb, which has gained a reputation for strong-arm tactics, dismissed the incident as local feuding, some Jamiat members called for immediate revenge -- even if it risked jeopardizing the plans of their military commander, Ahmad Shah Massoud, for a late-summer offensive. Most, however, cautioned restraint. The loss of key lieutenants in the ambush was already a major setback to Massoud's efforts to transform his guerrilla force into a more conventional army capable of cracking government defenses...
Next day, standing below the soaring Workers Monument in Gdansk, the President wrapped his arm around Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and held the portly electrician next to him. At the Westerplatte Memorial, which marks the site of the first gunfire of World War II, Bush, draped in a large American flag by an exuberant Pole, reached into the crowd, picked up a small boy and hugged him as if he were one of his own eleven grandchildren...
...first time, he put a price tag on the loss to taxpayers from the fraud and mismanagement under former HUD Secretary Samuel Pierce: $2 billion. At least half of that appears to have been siphoned from a six-year- old program in which the Federal Housing Administration, an arm of HUD, shares the insurance of housing projects with private companies...