Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team with the orange arm bands today will be Penn. There were a lot of rumblings when Penn football players realized that they were to be in Cambridge on Halloween. When four of them quit the squad two weeks ago, the three blacks denied that there had been racial conflicts. They did not deny, however, that they had quit so that they could stay in Philly on Halloween. Those who are still on the team reportedly came reluctantly...
...Little Rock, Ark., Brooks Robinson used to deliver newspapers to the home of his hero, Yankee Catcher Bill Dickey. One morning, hoping to impress the star with his throwing arm, young Brooks wound up and threw a rolled-up paper at the Dickeys' front porch. The paper landed on the roof. Robinson, now 33, has made few bad plays since. Last week, throwing, fielding and hitting like a man possessed, baseball's premier third baseman led the Baltimore Orioles to a four-games-to-one World Series victory over the Cincinnati Reds with one of the most spectacular...
...Canada two years ago, a motorcyclist with an electrically operated prosthetic arm passed near high-tension lines that were creating a powerful magnetic field. This energy caused the arm's motor to behave so erratically that the rider lost his grip on the handlebar, fell to the ground, and was nearly killed...
...most likely lead to more Government participation as time goes on. The U.S. until now has been the only industrialized country in the world with a totally private rail system. The Penn Central debacle, if not turned around quickly, will hasten the day that this private system becomes another arm of the Government...
...lonely than most, Janis Joplin died on the lowest and saddest of notes. Returning to her Hollywood motel room after a late-night recording session and some hard drinking with friends at a nearby bar, she apparently filled a hypodermic needle with heroin and shot it into her left arm. The injection killed...