Word: armed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Welz and Peters both faced the risk of losing their bonuses if they waited two more years. A starting defensive end his sophomore year. Welz hurt his shoulder playing football and might have re-injured it if he had played for two more seasons. And Peters, whose arm is considerably more precious and vulnerable in the cold New England weather, would always have to beware of the tendonitis that sidelined him freshman year. There is also a lot more for a pitcher to learn before he is ready for major league ball. Although the Red Sox have given Peters...
...effusive meeting at John Kennedy's funeral. De Gaulle was correct, but hardly cordial. Johnson stuck by his own plan of how to handle le grand Charles. "You've seen boys playing," he had told his aides shortly before leaving for Europe. "One holds out his arm and says, 'Spit over it.' The one boy spits and the other moves his arm, and of course the boy misses and spits on the arm, and then the first one gets mad and wants to fight. Well, De Gaulle is like the boy daring the other...
Texan Sherrill, in fact, had been a tough man to catch ever since the eighth grade, when at 15 he joined the Marine Corps and, before reaching draft age, was fighting on Bougainville. At 17, he landed at Guam and Iwo Jima, where he was winged in the arm. While at a Navy hospital, he took education tests and scored so high that he skipped high school to enter the University of Houston. From there he went to Harvard Business School. Returning to Houston, he became city treasurer and chief administrative officer in four years. Then he joined College...
Carrying signs reading "U.S. Withdraw Support from Greek Junta," and "U.S. Don't Arm Dictators." 170 students protested the military coup in Greece in front of the Greek Consulate in Boston Saturday...
Everybody got in the act, but the professional beats weren't hard to single cut. The Devils Disciples, blood-brother to the Hells Angels and the fighting arm of Boston hippy-power, had staked out their turf next to their mounts and squatted on the ground shining their Nazi helmets. Up near the Weeks bridge, a semipro combo formed the nucleus for what became an ever increasing circle of sound. There was a full set of skins, bongos, congos, a bass, sax, and crazy flutist...