Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bloodless was the patient that Dr. Núñez was obliged to dissect the muscles of the arm to locate a vein through which to transfuse donated blood...
...France's tapestry weavers. Flourishing when kings and noblemen wanted something ornamental to keep out the draughts which seeped through castle walls, their craft was dying in an age of steam heat and small apartments. What tapestry weaving needed, decided Mme Cuttoli, was a stiff shot in the arm of modern design as conceived by France's greatest living painters...
...effort to insure the secrecy of certain of its deliberations, the framers of the latest constitution have adopted what seem to be unwarranted strong-arm methods. No rule should be made providing for automatic suspension in case of a violation of a confidence imposed by the Council upon its members. In such an organization necessary confidences must be maintained by the honor and loyalty of the members, and mandatory secrecy would not only be impossible to enforce, but might lead to grave injustices should politics enter the Council chambers...
Carefully Hangman Hanna adjusted the arm straps, tightened around Killer Barrett's neck the stout $65 rope which he had used in 18 other hangings. Over Barrett's head he slipped a black satin hood, the handiwork of his sister-in-law. Then he walked calmly down the steps, confident that his 69th job would be without flaw. A deputy sheriff sprang the trap. Ten minutes later George W. Barrett was dead. At daybreak he was buried in Indianapolis' Holy Cross Cemetery...
...future lovers did not meet again until Nelson had lost an eye and an arm and won world-wide fame by demolishing the French fleet in Aboukir Bay. Then the Hero of the Nile led his fleet into the Bay of Naples, and there he stayed, in spite of the welcome (and the patient wife) awaiting him at home, in spite of hints and finally orders from his superior officers. When a French-abetted revolution broke out in Naples, Nelson transported the court and the Hamiltons to Sicily. When the revolution faded out he brought them back again, helped...