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Word: arms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instrumental ever since they helped bring the Front to the conference table last September. With strong diplomatic encouragement from Whitehall and Washington, the frontline Presidents had sent a senior representative to London to tell the guerrilla leaders-particularly the recalcitrant Mugabe-that they must settle with the British. That arm twisting, and the additional assembly points, did the trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE RHODESIA: We Are Going Home | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...pretty woman, but she turns even that to advantage. Some of her jokes are about her ample breasts: "Two of the reasons why I did not become a ballerina." A couple are about the rest of her body. Sitting down, she notices that her upper arm is still moving when the rest of her has stopped. She jiggles it and -incredible sight-her thighs, legs and neck too. "Isn't it terrible," she sighs, "that when you hit 30, your body wants a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Midler: Make Me a Legend! | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

...ROYALTY is PURITY PLUS PERSONALITY; downtown, hundreds of Children of God are demonstrating for the principle of making love for Jesus. A California touch therapist attends a session in an ashram only to discover that his Indian counterparts use 2-ft.-long clubs. The visitor emerges with a broken arm. At a Delhi football stadium the followers of one guru await the miraculous proof of God from their master. His evidence: "God exists because if you look in the Oxford English Dictionary under the letter G, you will eventually find the word God." The prize for Hindu chutzpah, however, goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transcendence, Incorporated | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...more tasteful symbols of protest are free. A New York City radio station, WMCA, is giving away white arm bands bearing the words UNITY is STRENGTH, a paraphrase of remarks President Carter made at a news conference last month. The station handed out 300,000 in six days, including several that were requested by the White House press office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Schlock | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...professor singled her out in the class, she says, staring at her pointedly during class and trying to keep "a close physical presence" after class. When she went to his office hours to discuss course material, he put his arm around her. The professor lived in her House and he made a point of plunking his tray down next to her at breakfast. One morning he scrutinized her blouse front so obviously the student's sister, sitting at the same table, commented with distaste about his behavior later. Finally she heard the professor had tried to grab and kiss another...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Sexual Harassment: New Policy But Old Problems | 12/13/1979 | See Source »

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