Word: armes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...functioning in eight cities-Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, San Francisco and Washington-and in some of them has found work for more than a third of its applicants. Still, even the Urban League could do nothing for one Negro soldier who had lost an arm in the war and found that prospective employers considered him not a war hero but merely a one-armed man. He decided to stay in the service...
Draconian Directives. As Public Affairs Chief of the U.S. European Command, Ellis conceives AFN broadcasts to be an obedient arm of U.S. policy. From his office in Stuttgart has come a steady stream of Draconian directives, all in the interests of what he calls "preventive maintenance." In other words, Ellis decides in advance how AFN will play a sensitive story. In reporting the recent 35,000-man U.S. troop cut in West Germany, for example, he instructed AFN not to use "cut" or "withdrawal"; "redeployment" was the proper word. No longer could AFN refer to the National Liberation Front...
Thomas ("Three-Finger Brown") Lu-chese. Corallo is known as "Tony Ducks" because he has been tried or investigated for extortion, loan-sharking, narcotics pushing, labor racketeering, gambling, strong-arm tactics and murder, but "ducked" almost all charges. His only significant conviction was for bribing a New York Supreme Court justice to "fix" a prison sentence. Both judge and fixer were given two-year sentences of their...
...normal. Now it fell within a few hours to a low normal. In an effort to keep the count from dropping fatally close to zero, the hematologists centrifuged eight pints of fresh blood to separate the white cells and infused an estimated 25 billion of them into an arm vein. Even then Washkansky's white count did not rise. Destruction of cells was obviously continuing...
...where he makes it a point to give the wounded everything but sympathy. "That's the last thing they want," he says. So he deliberately throws open the door of a ward and yells: "Okay, fellas, don't get up!" To a G.I. who has lost an arm: "You'll do anything to avoid the draft, won't you?" To another: "Did you see the show this evening, or were you already sick?" In the hospitals or in the field, it is not the cheers or the applause that affects Hope most, but "when...