Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic council became a respected voice of prudence and wisdom, it would well earn its $45,000 salary. And it could hardly do worse than the improvised, off-the-arm economics of such recent dilettante practitioners as Henry Morgenthau and John Snyder...
...death; it may have been worn as mourning for him following the precedent of the ship's company of the Berwick who, in 1794, went into mourning for their Captain by cutting the silk in half and wearing half round their hat and the other half on their arm...
...Emotionally I was reduced to a most primitive level of hope-fear. My feeling of apprehension and insecurity during the first operation was relieved by two factors: the authoritative, calm voice of the surgeon and the comforting physical contacts of [two women] physicians (who stroked my brow, pressed my arm...
...group of soldiers come along the road and their officer notices that we speak a foreign language. He at once draws his sword, screams at us, and threatens to cut us down. Father Laures Jr. seizes his arm and explains that we are German. He thought that we might well be Americans who had parachuted down. Rumors of parachutists are being bandied about the city...
When the Warden heard about Prisoner Stiles's leisure-time project, he sent some Stiles drawings to nearby Mare Island naval base. The Navy offered tools and materials, later supplied a human guinea pig: 25-year-old Lieut. Howard Pollack, who had lost his right arm in the South Pacific campaign. Stiles, with Lieut. Pollack's cooperation, eventually developed an artificial hand which he claimed would tweeze, grip, poke, carry and press. A Stiles-equipped amputee might thus be able to bowl, play golf, pick up a pin, hold a cigaret, button his own sleeve...