Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bees & Ants. The next day he began thinking of his knife, out of reach in the car. He wondered if he could cut off his arm. He picked up a sliver of glass, cut himself with it, and then stopped, suddenly afraid that he might bleed to death. He decided that he would die in the end anyhow. It seemed odd. He was only 26. He had been in the Navy during the war (and spent 36 hours on a raft after his ship was torpedoed). He had a good job in a Standard Oil Co. paraffin plant in Oakland...
...Lynwood Thomas Rowe, still called Schoolboy by everyone, is pitching with his head instead of his arm. He no longer has the blazing fast ball that made him Detroit's delight 13 years ago. He has been sent down to the minor leagues twice. Now, with six victories and no defeats, he is one of 1947's two leading pitchers (the other: Warren Spahn of the Boston Braves...
Bearlike, big-shouldered Steve Fritchman, 45, editor of the 126-year-old monthly Christian Register since 1943, held one of the key jobs in the tiny Unitarian hierarchy. He also held membership in a list of alleged Party-line organizations as long as his left arm; he contributed to the Communist weekly New Masses and was a sponsor of the pseudo-pacifist, Communist-front "Yanks Are Not Coming Committee." Then, when Russia was attacked, he turned into what he called "a fighting liberal." After the war, as U.S.Soviet friendship cooled, some Unitarians thought that the Christian Register was flying...
...long arm of the law reached out its aquatic tentacles yesterday and damply tapped an innocent College oarsman on the shoulder. Rowing blandly past the Weeks Memorial Bridge, the Freshman credit-seeker unexpectedly found himself being swamped by the wake of a police barge...
Lately, there has been a degree of politeness in the elevators here in the TIME & LIFE Building that would be considered extraordinary anywhere. Practically everyone has had a sore arm or a sore leg-the result of vaccination for smallpox-and an understandable desire to protect them from sudden onslaught...