Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintenance men started to shove through the pack. A picket leader jostled a mine guard. Stones began to fly. "Let 'em have it!" roared a mine boss. Bang-bang-bang went the mine guards' guns. Tear gas enveloped the strikers. One guard shot another guard's arm off by mistake. Fifteen strikers were dropped by bullets, their names a typical roster of U. S. mine labor: Louis Kromer, Steve Hrosky, George Ely, Anton Maura, Walter Ordorsky, Paul Popson, Mason Robert, George Hroska, Joe Goletz, Mike Budman, James Shannon, George Illeg, Vincent Stunga, Joseph Kromer. One fell...
Twenty-three years ago, a hunting companion shot off Clarence Charest's right arm. Forced to give up his favorite game, baseball, he took up tennis. When serving, he holds the ball in his hand, throws it up with the same motion of his arm that carries the racquet back, whacks it smartly with an efficient tackhammer motion. He keeps a second ball in his pocket, a third on the ground back of baseline. He rarely needs the second ball. Now 50, an able Washington lawyer, he won the Veterans' Championship for the first time...
...dinner of carrots before a race. On other days he is satisfied with ten quarts of oats, unlike gluttonous Man o' War, who had to wear a muzzle to prevent him from nibbling sticks between meals. Jockey Workman finds riding him "as easy as sitting in an arm chair." Sonny Whitnev's small daughter Nancy considers Equipoise her own horse...
...side of the net as though to change courts, held up her racquet, said to Umpire Dwight that her legs were so tired she felt unable to continue. Sensing the situation before the crowd knew what had happened, Helen Jacobs ran up to the net, put her arm around Mrs. Moody's shoulder, begged her to continue. Mrs. Moody shook her head and walked slowly off the court while the crowd, as incredulous as it was impolite, booed and whistled and a crowd of photographers gathered quickly around Champion Jacobs...
...showed the dummy clothed in a blue suit, white waistcoat and wing collar, a prominent gold chain suspended across the expansive stomach. "Fancy Dress Costume, for Fete Days on His Yacht" showed a headless Long John Silver clad in pirate's costume, a crutch tagged "1929" under one arm, a bag of money in one hand, a hat bearing skull & bones and the word "Corsair" (Morgan yacht) on his head. The fourth costume was striped trousers and shirt, a green-flowered apron, blue gloves, green-rimmed spectacles, shears, trowel. Title: "Gardening Frock, for Horticultural Moments...