Word: armes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those fouled pitches--Santiago's show of resistance--exasperated Kaat. He bore down. And something popped in his left arm. The game would be ours. One's premonition was justified...
...band of angry Negro youths -many of them from Impact House, a federally funded poverty agency-gathered beneath the neon sign of a liquor store and began aping Brown's agitational frenzy. Soon rocks and bottles were smashing store and car windows; a policeman was shot in the arm by a sniper; another cop blasted a 19-year-old Negro car thief, killing him. Fire bombs popped, and guttering flames silhouetted the scurrying shapes of looters carrying liquor, meat, window fans, cosmetics, even a drugstore cash register. For three days the violence flared and sputtered. Final tolls: nearly...
...value. Plagued for months by a painful case of "tennis elbow," he switched from wood to steel in July and the pain disappeared. The steel racket seems to absorb most of the ball's impact instead of transmitting the shock through the handle to a player's arm...
...growths of cells from the patients' blood. What disturbed the geneticists was that the breaks and other abnormalities appear to be identical with those known to be associated with some congenital disorders. At successive stages of damage and attempted self-repair, chromosomes are found with notched or broken arms, with translocations in which a detached arm of one chromo some gets stuck to another, and quadriradial or cross shapes. Such abnormalities appear in some cases of mongolism as well as in several severe forms of anemia that are accompanied by stunted growth and other physical defects, and in leukemia...
...conductor's arm chopped down -not to give the downbeat but to start his stop watch. Twenty-three minutes of tuneless blatting erupted from the trombonist, first of a dozen instrumentalists to play in sequence. Although the instruments were plugged into a bank of ten loudspeakers (with four technicians at the potentiometers, or volume controls), the audience strolled around the stage to pick up sounds from every angle. One player improvised his own percussion by borrowing a woman's slipper and rapping it on the platform. After four hours. Conductor Karlheinz Stockhausen finished Ensemble and, with many...