Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twice tried unsuccessfully to register. She contends that she and others in the line were complaining about police treatment of an arrested civil rights worker when Clark heard her say: "There ain't nobody scared here." At that, Clark jerked her out of line, twisted her arm, struck her on the head. Then, she concedes, "I went...
Spanier's playing sounded as hot and sure as ever, but that was not what Dr. Alton Ochsner Jr. and his colleagues were interested in. They were more concerned about the inaudible signals they were receiving through the patient's draped left arm. Through one of the veins in that arm they had threaded a thin plastic tube (catheter) right into Muggsy's heart. The doctors were observing the pressure changes inside his heart while the great horn man was blowing, to see whether he could go on playing without putting too great a strain...
There seemed no end to Duchamp's antic art. He hung a snow shovel, announced that it was a "readymade" work of art, and whimsically called it In Advance of a Broken Arm. He filled a bird cage with marble sugar lumps and titled it Why Not Sneeze. He made viewers dizzy with swirling patterns driven by electric motors, shocked gallerygoers with a foam-rubber breast labeled Please Touch, brought critics up short by stating that his grand design, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, on which he worked from 1915 to 1923, was intentionally left unfinished...
...vulture," he observes, "makes a wonderful conversation piece sitting on the chandelier." Bernie Hoffman can sell all the tarantulas ($5 each) he can lay hands on. He insists that "tarantulas can really be quite tame. They learn to love their masters. You can teach them to crawl up your arm...
...sled was too fast for its own good: on a practice run, Steersman Larry McKillip hit a rut and lost control coming out of Shamrock Bend, and smashed full force into the retaining wall. The sled's frame was hopelessly bent, and McKillip bruised an arm. The solution seemed obvious: slow down. But that didn't work, either: Steersman James Hickey took the four-man G.M. sled into Devil's Dyke so slowly that it could not hold the wall. The sled dropped like a stone from the face of the curve, and the runners were damaged...