Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Waltham, Mass., walked into the pilot's cabin aboard Trans World Airlines Flight 2 from Los Angeles to New York. He told the pilot and crew of the Boeing 707 that he had a time bomb and later produced an automatic from a phony plastic cast on his arm...
...Kennedy when the plane was over the eastern tip of Long Island. Once they were back on the ground, Trapnell ordered a fresh crew with, as he put it, "no heroes." Two of the new crew members, however, turned out to be FBI agents who shot Trapnell in the arm and hand and took him into custody. Authorities said that Trapnell was wanted for robbery in Canada and Miami, where he had been declared legally insane...
...recent Teamsters meeting in Chicago, some 600 members were asked to raise their hands if they believed that prices were still going up. In a snap, almost everyone in the room lifted his arm. That response typified a growing national doubt about Phase II, the post-freeze part of President Nixon's anti-inflation program. Housewives can invariably cite vexing increases in food prices, especially in produce and meat. Scarcely a week goes by that the Price Commission does not make some exemptions; last week, for example, it exempted nonprofit private schools from adhering to the guidelines for tuition...
...student caught violating the rules of fair play--e.g., grabbing the writing arm of another student--is sent to the penalty box for five minutes, during which time he may do no writing. If a violator draws blood, he incurs a ten minute penalty. If he takes a swing at a proctor, he draws an exam misconduct and is expelled from the hall, his exam book being turned in at that point...
Stephen Hall said that Harvard was not interested in having the Press turn a profit, but that "we also have no desire to lose an arm...