Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is not precisely true. Mrs. Jacobs found out about a girl whose tuberculosis had gone undiscovered in the hall for six months, and another whose broken arm had been improperly set. She found that it was a regular practice to lock children in cold, isolated cells for up to 48 hours as a disciplinary measure. She began to study her bureaucratic form charts, hounded the closed meetings of the juvenile justice commission. As she recalls: "They all sat around politely listening to explanations of practices that seemed insane to me." With her husband footing the bills, Mrs. Jacobs organized...
...time Figueres arrived at the airport, the hijackers had shown that they meant business by shooting one passenger, the son of Nicaragua's Minister of Agriculture, in the arm and abdomen. They had released the other passengers, but were holding the crew members as hostages in the plane. Costa Rica's radio stations were able to tune in on the conversation between air crew and tower, so that the entire country could hear one stewardess pleading: "For the love of God, let us go to Cuba! Otherwise, they'll kill...
When eleven-year-old Elizabeth Lee reached into a lion cage at an Anchorage amusement park, a 300-lb. lioness named Cleo seized her arm in its teeth. Alaska State Trooper Frank Johnson raced to the rescue, pulled out his pistol and shot the lion in the head. As the lion fell dead, both Johnson and the girl went sprawling; Johnson's gun accidentally went off again, and the girl was wounded in the thigh...
...when he's throwing.' Nevertheless. his accurate arm and play calling...
...Lore of Flight. Edited by John W.R. Taylor. 430 pages. Tre Tryclcare and Time Life Books. $30. From Leonardo da Vinci's arm powered aircraft design to the last entry (Zurich airport) in the book's splendidly detailed Encyclopaedic Index, this is the literary package best calculated to keep air-minded readers desk or rug-bound for weeks. What sets the book apart is not only how much it has packed into reasonably small compass, but the precision and beauty of its illustrations, including galleries of great flying machines from then...