Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, in his home in Albuquerque, 80-year-old Elfego Baca ate his last hot-pepper supper, smoked his last black cigar. Then he died quietly in bed. On a chair within arm's reach hung a well-cleaned, highly-polished gun, with nine notches in the handle...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS), modest Sergeant MacGillivary became the only native Canadian in World War II to get a Congressional Medal of Honor. Then he headed for Boston. There he aimed to marry Esther Manning (who has agreed) and to find a job which he can handle with his new artificial arm...
...young soldier at Walter Reed Hospital offered his opinion of his new artificial arm. Said he: "It's not worth a good goddamn...
...arm, made of steel and leather, weighed about ten pounds. On the end of it was what the Army cheerfully calls a "miracle hand"-a black-gloved affair with a thumb and forefinger that spring together when the good arm jerks some leather thongs strung across the body like a conductor's signal cord. The thongs are hard to wash, and the boys say that they soon begin to smell. The arm can be fitted with a pair of hooks with which, after much practice, a man can button himself up, tie shoelaces and lift up to 20 pounds...
Laggard Government. Amputees at Walter Reed claim that there have been no improvements in prostheses since the Civil War. Some say there have been none since the Middle Ages-and cite as evidence a knight's false arm...