Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drat that alarm clock! The Vagabond, lying in bed in a somewhat comatose state of vacuity, vaguely wondered where his left arm might be. He wanted to use that arm, too, as the alarm clock bothered him, and he felt that for humane reasons he ought to be kind to his poor aching head, and shut that infernal buzzer off. But he certainly wasn't going to be able to cope with any alarm clock if he couldn't find his arm. Yes, he remembered, he had missed his left arm last night in the taxi; was it a taxi...
...keep it up indefinitely and I suppose that I can stand it for a second or so longer." Finding such trains of thought too wearisome for a mere ten o'clock on a Holiday Morning, the Vag, too lazy to get worried about his missing left arm, turned over, pulled the warm quilt over his head, and went back to sleep as quickly as possible...
While Coach Peterson carefully scrutinized groups of Yardlings splashing back and forth on one side of the pool, Hal Ulen watched the first official workout of the season on the other side, as lettermen and non-lettermen mingled in kicking, arm-work, and short distance work...
...charm, contributed briefly to a radical weekly edited by Karl Marx. In Paris, at 58, he died-crying "Paper! Pencil!" The wonder was that he had lived so long. A syphilitic infection, contracted in his university days and never diagnosed, had progressively lamed his left leg, crippled his left arm, and in his last years reduced him to almost helpless invalidism...
...country folk to be up and to arm...