Word: archers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late in the afternoon of May 23, 1430, a Burgundian archer in the service of the English captured a hard-fighting soldier of the King of France and took his prisoner back to camp. Had he captured half the French army, his commanders would have been no happier. Stripped of armor, the soldier was seen to be a handsome, well-knit girl of 18 with short-cropped dark hair. For Jeannette d'Arc of Domrémy, who had given Charles VII his throne and whipped his English enemies with astonishing consistency, there now began one of the classic...
Experimenting on live giraffes was more fun, and harder. Dr. Goetz's original idea was to have an archer pot giraffes with arrows tipped with paralyzing curare, but the giraffes were too skittish, and the arrows did not hit them hard enough to penetrate their inch-thick hides. So Dr. Goetz spiked rifle bullets with curare mixed with powdered sugar, and shot them into a giraffe's hindquarters. In 45 minutes the muscles were paralyzed. Then Dr. Goetz and his safari mates hobbled the giraffe's legs, put a blindfold over its eyes, and erected around...
...Archer O'Reilly, Jr. '29 of St. Louis was re-elected secretary...
...picture, a soprano voice answered loud and clear: "Of course not!" Embarrassed executives of station WAAM explained that a technician had pulled a switch at the wrong moment, cutting off the audio portion of the bishop's Du Mont show and letting in a vagrant sentence from Corliss Archer...
...Reuben Archer Torrey Jr. was born 67 years ago, son of a preacher who was head of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. After graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary, young Presbyterian Torrey asked to be sent out to Korea, but the Korea quota was full and he drew China instead. With his bride of four months, he arrived there in 1913, for the next 28 years worked out of the Presbyterian mission in Tsinan. Shantung Province. After World War II he served as a civilian liaison man between the U.S. forces and Chiang Kai-shek's army...