Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death last fall of New York Don Carlo Gambino, who as capo di tutti capi had brought a measure of peace to the nation's Mafia families through guile, diplomacy and strong-arm discipline. His elaborate funeral marked the end of an era, for he was the last of the graybeard Godfathers who dominated the Mafia in the 1950s and 1960s. The others are either in their graves or living in expensive Sunbelt retirement homes in Florida, Arizona and Palm Springs, Calif...
...dried myself off and walked into the Crimson, a resume fatter than Totie Fields (an old friend) under my arm. And if it weren't for a guy named Tony, a man called Horse, and a thing called History, I wouldn't be here today...
...Arms open, legs churning, Buffalo Bills Running Back O.J. Simpson takes the hand-off and cradles the football in his arm. If there is a crease of space between the huge, straining bodies sprawled before him, he dashes through it, shaking off grasping hands. A linebacker collides with him, but O.J. simply caroms away. He shifts and feints, carving first one angle, then another on the open field. O.J. is now in a full gallop, and he has lost few foot races in the eight years of his National Football League career...
...principle of the lever, the longer lower leg can develop greater velocity at the end and serves as a longer lever with which to push off the ground, thus increasing the distance over which the force can be applied." The same general rules, Metheny found, applied to blacks' arms: on the average, blacks' hands are larger than those of whites, their arms longer, and a short, heavily muscled upper arm propels a long lower arm. Once more, the combination of leverage and musculature favors blacks in throwing...
...back at least to his days as a Strategic Air Command pilot in the 1950s (he still flies around on weekends in his private Cessna). After receiving his M.B.A. from Cincinnati's Xavier University, he worked for General Electric. In 1966 he joined Silver Burdett Co., the publishing arm of General Learning Corp. (then owned jointly by GE and Time Inc.); General Learning was set up to explore new teaching techniques. Two years later Backe was running Silver Burdett, then he became chief executive of General Learning. In 1973 he moved to CBS to head its publishing group; profits...