Word: armed
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...falcon does not return to its trainer's arm after making a kill, but squats on Its victim . . . until the hawker comes quietly up and lifts the falcon to his hand again. If the kill is made beyond the hawker's sight or quick reach, the hawk may gorge itself and fly off, never to be recaptured. Few falcons remain captives more than a few months...
...shooting. Birdzell, out in the streetcar tracks of Pennsylvania Avenue, turned and began firing back. A bullet hit one of his legs and he sank to one knee. Another bullet hit his good leg. He tumbled forward, and went on banging steadily away with his pistol held braced at arm's length on the pavement before...
...British and French ambassadors were summoned last week to Moscow's Foreign Ministry. Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko handed each a note. The Soviet Union, it said in effect, deplored the move to arm Western Germany against heavily armed Eastern Germany, supported the recent Prague Declaration for German unity on Communist terms (TIME, Oct. 30), proposed an immediate four-power parley...
...Philip II), Argentine Soprano Delia Rigal, new Italian Mezzo Fedora Barbieri, and the Americans Jerome Hines (the Grand Inquisitor) and Robert Merrill-through stage movements blocked out long before. She had cut down most of the operatic arm-flailing ("the less acting you do the better"), tried to keep them from staring dead ahead at Conductor Stiedry for the beat. Exhausted Margaret Webster hoped she had succeeded in her effort to "prevent the eye from too grossly contradicting...
...father punched a hole in the wall of Roland's adjoining bedroom to make it fit. At night, young Roland could see a little into the cafe; he remembered particularly one regular customer, a "beautiful woman," of whom he could seldom see more than a white arm and shoulder. Another idea in Petit's head came from watching a performance of South Pacific with his Carmen, tiny, bob-haired Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire. He had come out impressed with the gaiety of U.S. musicomedy; she had come out sighing, "I would like to sing like Mary Martin...