Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liked to pull at every kind of hanging-curtains, table cloths, ropes, visitors' skirts. She recognized people by their clothes better than by their faces, by the smell of their chests and arm pits better than by their clothes. Donald recognized faces readily. Gua was fond of poking her fingers in people's mouths. Donald liked to tweak noses...
Clambering down the outside wall with a hemp ladder the prisoners had made, the party seized the prison farm superintendent's car. A guard shot Harvey Bailey in the leg, but no further resistance was offered the convicts. The convicts retaliated by shooting a guard in the arm...
Meanwhile the soothing influence which many Cubans attribute to U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles continued. Notorious Major Arsenio Ortiz, President Machado's favorite strong-arm man, recalled from his bloody job of stringing up provincial rebels fortnight ago (TIME, June 5), was still under technical arrest, charged with three murders. The Machado government dared not bring him to trial, not knowing how much truth lay in his oft-repeated boast that friends in the U. S. hold the original orders for every one of his political assassinations. Finally came the decision: Major Ortiz would be sent to Germany June...
...seconds before, Mark Billman, Indianapolis driver, had crashed the retaining wall on the northeast turn, crushed his left side. He died after surgeons had amputated his arm...
...Cincinnati. Mrs. Margaret L. Pogue, motorist, extended her arm to give a traffic signal. A bale of straw fell from a passing truck, struck her arm, broke it below the elbow...