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Word: armes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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During his turn on the stand, Lowe testified about his confrontation with the killer: "Me and that man just stared at each other." How far apart had they been? "Four feet." How long did look? "Four seconds." Did he call the man? "Yes, sir," said raising his arm and pointing at Harry Aleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Perils of Doing Your Duty | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...challenge the leaders in the fourth race at Long Island's Belmont Park. As onlookers gasped, Bay Streak snapped a foreleg, and the rider and his horse went down. Cauthen, 17, was rushed to a nearby hospital and treated for lacerations, bruises and fractures of his right arm and two fingers. A few days later, the youth was released and sent home to Kentucky to recuperate. The doctors' orders: no riding for at least six weeks, putting a temporary halt to the jockey's unmatched five-month winning spree. The grounded Cauthen is already champing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 6, 1977 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...Seven goddam thousand dollars for this?" Lou took in the whole scene with a sweep of his arm--the superette, the bunker, the parking lot where the '68 Olds sat piled high with Carlo's Advents and his homemade afghan and his old movie posters. "What's so goddam special about this place...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A real special place | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Then you look up and you see there's a man's arm sticking out of the end of the grinder, with the hand gripped sweatily around the handle turning away for dear life, or death. The hand is turning and the grinder is grinding and somewhere in between there's the owner of the hand, who is quickly turning himself into so much ground round. And over in the corner there's the suave detective, with a little moustache and a twenty-below-zero stare watching perfunctorily. Looking at the owner a weasily guy who is paying to attention...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: 'Most determined case of suicide I've ever seen' | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Barry started to walk over, and Barry--this huge Neanderthalish supreme physical speciman of a man--can you guess what Barry did, on the walk over, minus that pint of blood? No, that's not what happened. What did happen was that he leaned too hard on the arm of the little old lady, who promptly collapsed under his weight. They had to pick her up and bring some real nurse over to take care of her and that's the truth.8Tim Carlson, Mark Lennihan and P. Wayne Moore...

Author: By John A. Spritz, | Title: Pranks and embarrassments | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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