Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...windshield of his abandoned car: "I'm a rich man." That he was, emphatically. Richard Charles Rees had just walked off his job in San Mateo, Calif, as a guard on a Brinks armored car, and he had $516,305 in a champagne case tucked under his arm. Last week, after eleven months on the lam, Rees, 27, was under the strong arm of the law. FBI agents finally caught up with him in the tiny New Mexico town of Villanueva (pop. 300). His cash supply: just...
...timber to carve something as big as Michelangelo's David. Even if there was such a tree, there would be insuperable problems of technique. Wood is grainy. It favors continuous, compressed shapes with a strong axis along the grain. Anything that sticks sideways from the block-an arm, say-is weak and splits off. Hence the elongated, torpedo-like form of a Shinto deity from Japan's Kamakura period (12th-14th centuries)-a courtier, oddly clownlike in his peaked cap and baggy pants, but carved with a reductive formal elegance that might have inspired Brancusi seven centuries later...
...firm, the people understood. As for his critics, they could "kiss my mistletoe," which the mayor described as attached to the seat of his pants. In explaining his action, Daley knew he spoke for many of his people in the "neighborhoods". "If a man can't put his arm around his sons, then what kind of world are we living in?" He loved his city but he loved his sons too. Chicago bought...
...longest winning streak: twelve straight. In Kenny Stabler, the Raiders have a quarterback of stunning accuracy (a 66.7% pass-completion record), seven years of experience and sound football sense. Stabler stands behind an almost impregnable wall of protection led by Tackle Art Shell and Guard Gene Upshaw, his left arm ever cocked, "the Snake" ready to strike. Few quarterbacks have had a covey of receivers to rival Stabler's. Wide Receiver Fred Biletnikoff, 33, works the sideline like a 190-lb. Wallenda. His hands are liberally coated with Hold-Tite, but all the sticky goo in the world will...
...football since 1961 and I have to believe I belong with the best quarterbacks ever. I don't give a damn about artistry or how much velocity my pass develops or how many tight ends I can knock through a brick wall with my ball. Let the strong-arm cultists be happy with their images. I play. I play week in and week out, year in and year...