Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unfortunate and ironic that the Pentagon Papers are ancient history only to those who would learn and benefit most from them. While President Nixon's cleverly-timed China initiatives have successfully removed the once-secret study from public view, the domestic arm of Washington's foreign policy machine, the Internal Security Division in the Department of Justice, has opened an ambitious grand jury investigation into the study's release...
Readers who may have wondered ever since freshman English what it feels like to have an arm torn off by Beowulf in Hrothgar's meadhall can now relax. It hurts like the devil. "I bawl like a baby. I am slick with blood," cries Grendel in this splendid fiend's-eye view of an Anglo-Saxon epic. "My heart booms with terror." Yet as Novelist John Gardner retells the story, much of Grendel's pain is pure philosophical chagrin...
Winded Riders. In the past few years the inflation (polo ponies cost about $750 to $1,000) and the increasing popularity of bicycling have given bicycle polo a new shot in the arm. Clubs have been organized in California, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New York, where the U.S.B.P.A. holds practice sessions in Central Park every Tuesday and runs tournaments during weekends on Long Island...
...Karl Spooner or Cleveland's Herb Score who, through injury or accident, ended their careers in one quick flameout. "Vida's one of those kids who come along once in a lifetime," says Posedel. "He throws awful hard, and the only thing you don't know is if his arm is ready for it." Says A's Manager Dick Williams: "I'd like to keep him in a glass case between starts...
...little later, Scott was on his knees again, intentionally. Using a hammer, he chipped a large chunk off a big, lava-like boulder sitting on the rille's ledge. Then he tucked the piece under his arm like a football and galloped enthusiastically back to the rover. Scientists in Houston shared Scott's exuberance. He had apparently snared a valuable chunk of the moon's bedrock...