Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe that swine flu is real, while others think the vaccine is dangerous. So the U.S. Government campaign to inoculate 86 million Americans against the virus by Christmas was lagging badly-when along came Larry Hardison of Concordia, Mo., to give the program a shot in the arm, so to speak. Federal health officials reported last week that the 32-year-old telephone lineman had developed an apparent case of the illness in October. Hardison has since recovered, but he has spurred thousands to roll up their sleeves. The average daily number of New York City residents seeking shots almost...
That is exactly what happened to one 72-year-old woman. A year ago, neighbors found her lying in her bathtub, blood clotted on her head, a stocking twisted around her neck, and her arms trussed behind her. She had lain there for two days. The next day, the doctors amputated one arm; recently they had to remove the other...
...York art world. His reputation would look after itself; he would not tend it. Besides, Rauschenberg was a natural dissipater. The sight of him in his porcupine-quill leather jacket, erect but slightly, marinated with Jack Daniel's, cackling like a Texan loon and trying to get his arm around everyone at once, was too familiar...
...Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Lyndon Johnson. Charles Schultze, 51, Budget Director under Johnson, has been mentioned for Treasury or for CEA chairman. A possibility for Director of the Office of Management and Budget is Alice Rivlin, 45, head of the impressive new budget arm of the Congress...
...current undergraduates' parents. One reason: whether it is outlawed or not, most students will not accept it. Says Senior Steve Taylor, president of the Zeta Psi house at the University of California at Berkeley (a position his father held 25 years ago after being branded on the arm as a pledge): "All that stuff, tubbing, paddling, branding is looked down upon today." Gary Ausman, assistant director of student services at the University of Washington, agrees: "The decline in hazing is coming from the kids themselves. No amount of pressure by the school, the law or parents would stop...