Word: armed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tangible Reminder. The right arm of St. Francis Xavier, flown from Rome by the Jesuit Order for the occasion, was severed at the elbow in 1614 and brought to Rome as a relic. The saint's body rests on the tiny Portuguese-Indian island of Goa, which had been his mission headquarters. It is exposed for public veneration once every ten years...
...desperation was no defense, and the long arm of the law soon grabbed him where his lapel should be. But upon hearing of his plight they took pity. He was listed as a sleepwalker...
...poster and was moved to anger, not pity. Says Kruger: "That well-meaning poster destroyed a lot of dignity. It was asking for sympathy-one thing an amputee gets and doesn't want." Kruger knew what he was talking about; at 13 he had lost his right arm in a mine accident. The poster crystallized his determination to form a self-help organization for amputees...
Last week the organization held its third industrial forum in Cleveland's Hotel Hollenden. Fifty amputees staged a dinner show for 150 personnel directors, industrial doctors and nurses, to demonstrate the skills handicapped men & women can master. In a sample scene a wife with one arm expertly ran a sewing machine, and teased her husband, also one-armed, into helping her fix the house for a bridge party; he deftly whisked a vacuum cleaner around the room, then hung a strip of new wallpaper. Then, in a business scene, a stenographer with one leg operated office equipment...
Voice of Experience. In Los Angeles, after Traffic Violator Elmer G. Noe told the court that "even though I was driving with one arm around my girl friend, everything was under control," Judge Roser A. Pfaff retorted sharply: "Young man, I was young once myself. Everything cannot be under control in those circumstances...