Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, when the trumpets brayed and the white-ruffled Alguaciles rode out to catch the keys to the arena in their plumed hats last month, it was great-jawed, ugly BELMONTE himself who led the parade with his embroidered cape twisted across his back and over his arm. For a long-retired veteran's comeback it had not been an unsuccessful season. All of his old courage, most of his old skill, were still on display. Because he always worked closer to the horns than other bullfighters, he had been tossed many times in a few weeks, but never...
First business of the day was to get a court martial busy trying the Dollfuss assassins. One ex-Sergeant Otto Planetta confessed to shooting the Chancellor. Said he: "Someone jogged my arm and the gun discharged. I then noticed what seemed to be only a shadow fall to the floor...
Amarendra was standing in the Calcutta railway station. "A short, black man with an oval face brushed against him," his aged aunt recounted last week from the witness stand in the Calcutta court. Amarendra felt a hypodermic needle pierce his arm. Before the sting had died away, Benoyendra dashed up and massaged the arm. Amarendra quickly developed a high fever, his arm pits and groins swelled, his face puffed, his tongue blackened, and he died, Calcutta's first victim of bubonic plague in five years...
Lone dissenter was James H. Doolittle, onetime Army Air Corps major, who in a one-man minority report wrote: "I am convinced that the required air force can be more rapidly organized, equipped and trained if it is completely separated from the Army and developed as an entirely separate arm." Failing this. "Jimmy" Doolittle urged that at least the Army Air Corps should be removed from control of the General Staff. To this a majority of the committee retorted: "The committee is not greatly impressed with the validity of the several imputations against the General Staff. Control is always repressive...
Near Fouke, Ark., at a Pentecostal meeting, a farmer boy slashed an artery in his companion's arm. Worshippers formed a circle around the wounded youth, prayed fervently for an hour, watched his blood flow unchecked until he was dead...