Word: armed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After missing most of last year with a broken arm, Wildfong returns this season to center a line with Mara and Loftsgard...
...doubt the court would regard this as an enforceable promise." McNutt may wind up vindicated, but his reputation in Duluth is shredded. Sentiment in this small industrial city lies with the woman scorned. Says a local resident and friend of Zauhar's: "Dorothy would have cut off her right arm for him." Alas, he may have wanted only a kidney...
...billionaires are coming to the rescue. First, media mogul Ted Turner announced last month that he would give the ailing United Nations a $1 billion shot in the arm over the next 10 years. Then last week, American financier George Soros shocked Moscow and the West with a pledge to pump up to $500 million of his personal fortune into needy Russian health and education programs over the next three years...
...that the station had all at once become huge, practically filling the screen at a distance of barely 150 ft. from Progress. "Try to get another range!" Tsibliyev shouted to both crewmen. As Foale sped toward Kvant, Lazutkin looked out his window and froze. There, at last, seemingly at arm's length, was the fast-closing Progress. "There it is already!" he shouted...
Foale, however, had a handy way to figure it out. If he held up his thumb at arm's length, he could blot out a patch of sky equal to about 1 1/2[degrees] of arc--a point of reference he could use, along with his watch, to determine how fast a spacecraft was moving. Foale swam over to the window, spent a few minutes watching stars come and go behind his thumb, and swam back to Tsibliyev and Lazutkin. "Tell them we're moving one degree per second," he said...