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Word: armed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is only one documented case of an alligator actually killing a person (last year in Florida). But the creatures have needle-sharp teeth, and the big ones can crunch a leg or arm off a grown man. Though the gator still tends to avoid people, warns Ted Joanen, a biologist with Louisiana's Wild Life and Fisheries Commission, "he domesticates quite easily and loses his fear of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Gator Glut | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...Reutemann, who has already won races this year, is leading. Reggazoni, Ferrari's No. 1 driver and hope for the championship, has dropped out. I later read that he had had suspension problems. Lauda too is no longer a threat. Suddenly Reutemann appears around the curve with his right arm cocked in the air. He has won and the crowd breaks out in cheering he cannot hear. Immediately we head out for the car. It is 5:00. We have neither the time nor the inclination to stop off at the bog. Its smoldering fires still darken...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: A Watkins Glen Journal | 12/6/1974 | See Source »

Playwright Eduardo de Filippo is a deft entertainer who deals in stage Italians in the same way that others deal in stage Irishmen or Jews. Stage Italians are volatile, tempestuous, jealous, meltingly sentimental, arm-waving operatic hams. Right? Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Pasta, Everyone? | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

Crimson coach Bill Cleary has a plethora of fast skating, high-scoring forwards returning from last year's team. Almost any coach would give his right arm to have just half of what Cleary has to work with...

Author: By Andrew P. Quigley, | Title: Talent-Laden Crimson Icemen Are Prime ECAC Contenders | 11/20/1974 | See Source »

Kirkland's Kevin McCluskey, who usually plays as a wide receiver, called the signals for the injured quarterback, Gary Fretesi. The game was slogged out on the grounds however, because of bad weather and McCluskey's arm was never tested...

Author: By Charles Coolidge, | Title: Unbeaten Kirkland Wins Interhouse Football Title | 11/14/1974 | See Source »

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