Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nothing succeeds like a successor," jokes U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel, 48. What he means is that he succeeded to his job two years ago, just as his agency was evolving from a onetime statistics-keeping bureau to a major arm of government, now bigger in budget than the departments of Commerce, Interior, Justice or Labor...
Many people in Roxbury, Kahn stressed, don't seek medical help until an emergency arises, such as a broken arm or leg. They see the nearby Boston City Hospital as inefficient and cold, and moreover, have little money to spend on medical care...
...reporter, even one lucky enough to unhook him from beneath Burt Ross' protective arm, can't get a rise out of him. Unlike most Negroes struggling for "the cause," King keeps himself non-controversial by never saying anything anyone but the most rabid White Supremicist doesn't want to hear. Yet below his gentleness, below his slickness, one senses enormous restraint. "Yes . . . yes, of course" he drawls when introduced to a SNCC worker, as though he had followed the boy's courageous exploits all summer...
...Harvard's hopes ended half a minute later when Michigan sophomore Dan Walter stole the puck right in front of Fitzsimmons and fired. The shot bounced off the goalie's stick, over his arm and into...
Touching the Nerve. Of course, there is as much legend as fact in this image of Johnson, just as there is in his image as an overpowering arm twister. Johnson has a "treatment" all right, but its effectiveness is due neither to brute force nor to Svengalian hypnosis. Johnson simply is better than anybody else at finding and touching the most sensitive nerve a Congressman has-his own self-interest...