Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...party across the hall was breaking up. There was a long cheer for both teams, a glass shattered and someone was knocking on his door. The tall guy from the south was there with one arm around a very good-looking blonde, and the other had a bottle in it. Vag agreed that it was a great game and that this year's line was the greatest collection of guys since the Blocks of Granite. As the people waltzed out of the room across the way Vag refused the bottle and began to be irritated by the noise. Down...
...pointedly stayed away from the Democratic rally in the Memorial Building, instead drove over to Grandview to visit his 93-year-old mother. In his absence Mayor Roger Sermon explained the facts of life to Harry Truman's puzzled fellow citizens. "He'd give his right arm to be here tonight, but there are some things he can't do. He must preserve the dignity of his office...
...other gadget: sonar, radar's supersonic cousin. A sonar-equipped locomotive, by means of an oscillator and amplifier, would keep sending out whistle blasts pitched so high that nobody could hear them; but if a signal box ahead had its danger arm up, a reflector would send back the sound waves to the locomotive. There a microphone would detect the supersonic racket, a bell would ring (or a light flash), and the engineer would throttle down to his foggy-foggy...
...final comment on the present-day college-girl attitude came from a young woman to whom the military shot-in-the-arm, the monthly medical inspection, and dental check were practically habit. Revealing that she was perhaps too revealing during the freshman physical examination, she said, "That sheet was a little unwieldly, and gosh, I had the feeling I was corrupting those kids...
Winthrop's big threat was in the pitching arm of Bud Weld, who was deadly at short range when he had time to get his passes away before practically the whole Lowell line broke through...