Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assistant Attorney Thomas Murphy now got into the fight. He objected when Stryker, bobbing around the court, kept getting between him and the witness. He bristled when Stryker gave his arm a jovial pat. Once he spoiled Stryker's melodramatic reading of some evidence by pleading in his heavy voice, "Oh, please, Mr. Stryker, read it straight." His thick, brown mustache worked, he sighed with rage when little Judge Kaufman time & again overruled his objections, sustained many of Stryker...
Last fortnight, tourists who went out to Xochimilco found the boats untended, their flowers wilted. An old boatman named Cecilio ("Negro") Pacheco explained why. He leaned over the side of his canoa, plunged a muscular arm into the murky water. "Look," he said. His arm caused a sucking sound as it went up to the elbow in thick mud. "Who wants to ride around Xochimilco...
...Black Robe's ragtag characters shamble through a fictitious police court. Their problems range from strong-arm felonies to a housewives' quarrel over the basement washing machine. The only professional actor in the shifting cast is the judge. None of the others even try to memorize lines. Instead, they are rehearsed over & over in incidents gathered from court stenographers, judges, police reporters, detectives and the files of the Better Business Bureau. Lord encourages them to act out the basic drama in their own words...
...emotional Japanese, St. Francis' arm was something more than a reminder. Cried one white-haired man in Nagasaki, a Japanese Catholic center, as he stood, rosary in hand, to watch the procession go by: "We have seen the second coming of St. Francis Xavier...
...amount of blood depending on the child's weight (1.5 cubic centimeters for each pound), added citrate to prevent clotting, fed it into a machine called a Knott Hemo-Irradiator that exposes the blood to ultraviolet light. Then the blood was returned to the child's arm through the same needle...