Word: disarmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pitiful the big three, America-Russia-China, don't disarm and join to employ-feed-clothe-shelter-healteach humankind?! Henry Ratliff...
While wrestling with his moral crisis, Newman gets to act all kinds of things: tough, rebellious, weary, angry, loving, even, for a couple of fine moments, absolutely crazy. That is when he has to disarm a psycho who is threatening a crowd with a knife. Newman turns his hat around, pulls faces and starts mumbling wildly to himself, so startling the lunatic that he docilely hands over his weapon...
...soldiers are brought to court-martial. The charge: murdering some Boer "civilians" they have captured in a vengeful raid, along with a German missionary whose death has provoked a murmur of international reproach. The soldiers' commander, Lord Kitchener, wants to make an example of them so as to disarm world opinion about his unedifying conduct of a nasty...
Life would be tough under the Kremlin. At the same time, it's rough under the Pentagon. Even worse under vast stockpiles of germ warfare, atomic and hydrogen weaponry. Odds for survival are likely as good or better if we keep only police, national-coastguard and disarm unilaterally. If pushed out of some markets by Soviets, we probably can make that up by billions saved on the defense establishment. If U.S. must have a nuclear unbrella, use that of Britain and France. Henry Ratliff July...
Douglas County Sheriff Jerry Maple decided that there was no choice but to try to disarm the bomb. Though the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had offered to lend a robot with mechanical claw and television-camera eye, the authorities relied instead on a local firefighter, who attached a small explosive device to the bomb, which was supposed to either destroy the control box or detonate the crate's contents. At 3:42 p.m., authorities crossed their fingers and set off the small explosive...