Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lawyer, was an Air Force major, a downed Phantom pilot. In 1967 a crowd of Vietnamese villagers watched as a rope was tied around his elbows and tightened with a foot jammed into his back. A ferret-faced man the P.O.W.s nicknamed "the Rodent," seized Day's right arm and twisted until the cracked bones broke through the flesh. The bone, gaping from Day's arm like a jagged tooth, remained untreated for four months-until Day's half-dead cellmate, Navy Lieut. Commander John McCain, another torture victim, regained consciousness sufficiently to fashion...
...Museum in Berlin paid the top price of the auction: $2,214,000 for a gleaming Mosan medallion made in A.D. 1150 for the Abbey of Stavelot in Belgium. On behalf of the Nuremberg art museum, a London dealer paid $2,029,500 for another 12th century enamel, an arm ornament made for Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's coronation robe...
...fact, appropriately programmed "chips," or microcircuits, could be built directly into computers so that all messages would be automatically encoded and decoded at the terminals. Still, the Government clearly does not want to go too far. Only recently the National Security Agency, the U.S.'s chief cryptographic arm, tried briefly to keep a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee scientist from patenting a new coding device. It also apparently exerted behind-the-scenes pressure to make the IBM system less secure than it might have been. It fixed the length of the key at 56 bits of computer information rather than...
After Robert had been mildly sedated and his leg anesthetized, Cardiologist Simon Stertzer inserted a narrow, hollow Teflon tube called a guiding catheter into an artery in the leg (although an arm artery can be used instead). Working the catheter up through the blood vessels, he reached the opening of the obstructed heart artery. Then Stertzer inserted a narrower and more flexible hollow catheter, with a tiny deflated balloon near its tip, through the Teflon tube and into the heart artery itself. Guided by X rays that determined precisely where the artery was blocked, he positioned the balloon exactly...
With nine minutes remaining in the period, Kempes threaded his way through two defenders at the 18-yd. line, took one quick dribble and flicked a low left-footed shot just under the arm of charging Dutch goalie Yongblood...