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Abzug
U.S. lawyer and politician. Born in New York City, she studied law at Columbia Univ. and subsequently took on numerous union, civil-liberties, and civil-right cases, representing several people charged by Sen. J. McCarthy. She founded and chaired (1961-70) the antiwar Women Strike for Peace and later the National Women's Political Caucus. In the House of Representatives (1971-77), she was known for her flamboyant style and outspoken support for the Equal Rights Amendment, abortion rights, and child-care legislation and opposition to the Vietnam War.


adze
Hand tool for shaping wood. A handheld stone chipped to form a blade, it is one of the earliest tools, and was used widely in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. By Egyptian times, it had acquired a wooden haft (handle) with a copper or bronze blade set flat at the top of the haft to form a T. In this form but with a steel blade, it continued to be the prime hand tool for shaping and trimming wood; the carpenter stands on or astride a log or other piece of timber, swinging the adze like a pick, down and between the legs.


Anzio
Seaport and resort town (pop., 1991: 32,000) southeast of Rome, Italy. It was founded, according to legend, by Anteias, son of Odysseus and Circe. It was a stronghold of the Volsci in the 5th cent. BC. Conquered by Rome in 338 BC, Antium (as it was then known) became a resort for wealthy Romans. Nero and Caligula were born there. Destroyed by the Saracens in the 9th-10th cent., it remained virtually deserted until 1698, when Pope Innocent XII built a new port nearby. In 1944 it was the scene of a bloody but successful amphibious landing by Allied forces.


Arab
Any member of the Arabic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and N. Africa. Before the spread of Islam in the 630s, the term referred to the largely nomadic Semitic peoples of the Arabian Peninsula; it came to apply to Arabic-speaking peoples from Africa's Mauritanian and Moroccan coasts east to Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula and south to N Sudan after their acceptance and promotion of Islam. Traditionally, some Arabs are desert-dwelling pastoral nomads (see Bedouin), whereas others live by oases and in small, isolated farming villages. While most Arabs are Muslims, some are Christian. The term may also be used today in an ethnic ("the Arab nation") or sociolinguistic sense.


Aram
Ancient country, SW Asia. It extended from the Lebanon Mtns. to beyond the Euphrates River. It was named after the Aramaeans, who emerged from the Syrian desert to invade Syria and Upper Mesopotamia (c.14th cent. BC) and who built numerous city-kingdoms, incl. Damascus. It lends its name to the Aramaic language.


Arany
Hungarian epic poet. His main work is the trilogy of Toldi (1847), Toldi szerelme (1848-79; "Toldi's Love"), and Toldi esté je (1854; "Toldi's Evening"). Recounting the adventures of a 14th-cent. youth of ...

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