Word: armed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pitchers, who in the early days had been allowed to sling the ball out of a windmilling windup, were eventually held down to a single rotation of the arm. As the ball was hardened to speed up the game, gloves appeared, and softball finally settled down as a small-scale, frenetic version of America's national game...
Next Tuesday morning the mail boxes in Lowell and Leverett will be opened as usual about 9:30 or 10 and a uniformed arm will reach in to place the usual bills, letters, circulars, and postcards in the little cubbyholes. But sharp-eyed members of these Houses will note that for the first time in 22 years, the boxes will opened by a new man, and the hand under the uniform will be different. For veteran letter carrier Andy Corr is retiring after bringing Bellboys and Bunnies news from home for over 20 years...
...Associated Press reported that another man was bayoneted in the arm when he refused to move out of a soldier...
Upperclassmen also pledged less to the Council than did freshmen, although even the freshman contribution was not as great as expected. Johnson attributed underclass lack of contribution to the "extreme view" of last year's freshmen toward the strong-arm methods of solicitation employed by the Council last year...
Russia's northern force has suddenly emerged as the most significant of Russia's four fleets. Based on Polyarny, near Murmansk, and on Khabarovo, about 700 miles to the east, its four cruisers, 40-odd destroyers and 50 to 100 submarines (some of them missile-armed) are positioned to dominate the far northern approaches to Europe. In time of war the fleet would provide the stronger arm of the naval pincer (the Soviet Baltic fleet is the other) by which the Russians would try to neutralize Scandinavia and challenge Western transatlantic sea lines. It would also serve...