Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raise a righteous racket against the heathen. King is not merely the seasoned pro who has won five Wimbledon singles titles and two at Forest Hills. She is not only the grit player who serves, rushes and smashes as if life hung on every point. She is also the arm and brain of women's ten nis, the rebel who broke some of the sport's prissy traditions and made the revolution work. Like it or not, King personifies the professional female athlete that Riggs loves to taunt...
With its movable, spring-loaded hooks, the prosthesis fitted onto the stump of Dan Aycock's left arm two years ago was a substantial improvement over the ugly iron claw of earlier days. But the artificial arm still had a serious deficiency. Because Aycock, 38, who lost his arm in a textile-mill accident, was unable to tell how much pressure he was exerting on anything he was trying to pick up or use, he risked breaking the gauges and other delicate items that he handled on the job in a Louisburg, N.C., automobile agency. Now Aycock...
...major subway station after an Irish-accented caller alerted the press. A bomb concealed in a railway hobbyist's manual blew up in the face of Joanna Knight, a 25-year-old Stock Exchange secretary, as she was opening the morning mail. She suffered hand, face and arm injuries. Her boss, 61-year-old Exchange General Secretary George Brind, was also injured. Hours later a book bomb exploded in the mail room of the Bank of England, blowing off a man's hand...
...than to call him a "little Jap." Since one-third of Hawaii's population is of Japanese origin, the state was indignant. There was even a boomlet for Inouye for President. A reader wrote the Honolulu Advertiser: "Inouye certainly has everything a President should have except a right arm...
...confiscated by the U.S. Government because Interhandel was believed to be a front for the German cartel I.G. Farben. It was while the "little American" worked on this affair (in which he finally won a $150 million settlement) that Second Lieut. Inouye lost his right arm in Army combat in Europe. Among Wilson's other famous cases: a 1970 victory in the Supreme Court upholding Barry Goldwater's libel judgment of $75,000 against Eros and Fact Publisher Ralph Ginzburg; and the initial defeat of President Truman's 1952 seizure of steel companies. In the steel case...