Word: disarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stalked through the Detroit factory with murder in his head, an M-l carbine in his hands. While other workers cringed, James Johnson Jr., 35, killed Foreman Hugh Jones with one shot, then pumped four more bullets into his victim's body. When another foreman tried to disarm him, Johnson killed him too. Then Johnson went after a worker, Joseph Kowalski, whose job was a particularly good one, and murdered him. Finally persuaded to surrender, Johnson threw his rifle against a wall and quietly waited for the police...
...descriptions of what Keyes calls the "prophylactic society," the picture of hate that confronts the two Boltons in the turnpike restaurant where they are forced to spend a snowy night, or the picture of Keyes' roommate, an Upper East Side, hairstyled, ankle-booted beautiful person who writes advertisements for Disarm Deodorant. We have heard these things before...
...there is a deep sardonicism in his personality, a self-deprecating sense of humor which he would sometimes use to disarm his colleagues and at other times to make straightforward remarks which he would never have dared utter in a serious vein. "My problem," he once said to a Faculty coleague with a trace of a grin, "is that I was born arrogant"; the remark of a man who either thought himself above reproach or was perhaps entirely too blind about the roots of his own scornfulness...
...increase troop withdrawals as political pressures rise within the U.S. He will announce more reductions of the Viet Nam garrison in April, which may draw some of the poison out of planned antiwar demonstrations this spring. He must, however, reckon with the fact that if he sets out to disarm his critics at home, the result may be to undermine the morale of the South Vietnamese and weaken Thieu before his test in South Viet Nam's presidential elections in October...
Decorated for World War II service aboard a destroyer in the Battle for Leyte Gulf, Zumwalt also commanded a river gunboat that sailed up the Yangtze River to help disarm Japanese forces in Shanghai. There he met an attractive White Russian girl from Manchuria, Mouza Coutelais-du-Roche, who is now his wife. Trim and fit in body, Zumwalt is also a disciplined logician. He won speech and debating laurels at the Naval Academy (where he ranked 34th in his class of 615, but 275th in conduct). An eclectic thinker, he prefers reading contemporary political, sociological and technical works...