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...member who had married into the Kennedy family, recalled that "one time at a party in Palm Springs he got so mad at some poor girl that he slammed her through a plate glass window. There was shattered glass and blood all over the place and the girl's arm was nearly severed . . . Frank paid her off later and the whole thing was hushed up, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Thumb in the Public Eye His Way:The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...When you put your arm around Hilda, imagine she is Ginger Rogers...

Author: By Michelle D. Tanenbaum, | Title: An Alternative Theater Experience | 10/31/1986 | See Source »

Landau brings more poise to the position, though none of the Crimson quarterbacks had any appreciable varsity experience before this year. Both are good scamblers, but Yohe may have the slightly stronger arm...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: A Potential Quarterback Controversy Grows in Cambridge | 10/28/1986 | See Source »

When he appeared to have succeeded, he lifted himself well above the water-line, grimaced, threw his arm behind his head like a quarterback and...had the ball stripped away from behind by a furiously on-rushing Joe Kaufman...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Aquadudes Play Happy Hosts at Blodgett, Capture Ivy Championship With 3-0 Slate | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

...second flyer was not so lucky. He was captured almost immediately by an Amal militiaman, Rafiq Ibrahim, 19. "I jumped out of the bush and ordered him to stick his hands up," Ibrahim later reported. "He raised only one arm, so I shouted at him and gestured by my M-16 rifle for him to raise his other hand. His right arm was broken." Amal officials, who have quietly aided Israel by harassing Palestinian fighters in southern Lebanon, were at first reluctant to admit to the capture, lest it lead to an Israeli rescue operation. They later said the pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Threat to an Uneasy Peace | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

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