Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stewart Evans, 41, an Army lieutenant colonel who had spent five months training for the assault, marched down to a beach on the Farallons, smeared himself with great gobs of a "secret" cold-protective grease and stroked off-straight into a school of jellyfish. For two hours, his left arm was nearly useless with excruciating pain, but he somehow kept going until the pain subsided, after a total...
Moaned Florida's Dante Fascell, one of the bill's managers: "I feel like the man who tried to prevent disaster by putting his finger in the dike-only to have somebody come along and saw off his arm...
Laurens was reserved but receptive to his colleagues' cubist ideas, soon began experimenting with painted geometric sculpture. Eventually the female superseded other subject matter. Since Laurens never used models, he was free to invent: an arm became a jai alai basket, limbs were omitted or dramatically extended. If his early cubist works were all angles, taut as strings, his later ones had the liquid rhythm of the sea. That breakthrough came in 1931, when Laurens visited the Mediterranean seacoast. From then on, his sculpture looked as if it had been tumbled in a million waves rather than shaped...
...draw all the country's dissidents into the struggle, Cong or not. The enemy prefers to be known as the National Liberation Front, which is in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of North Viet Nam's ruling Lao Dong (Workers) Party. The Liberation Army is the Front's military arm. But North Vietnamese prejudices aside, the name Viet Cong remains a handy catch-all for the enemy in South Viet...
Schemel, who was completely paralyzed from the neck down for a month and whose left leg and arm are still partially paralyzed, had two things going for him: intense public concern with auto safety, and the tendency of more and more courts in the U.S. to hold manufacturers to tougher standards of liability when their products cause injury. Indeed, one member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Judge Roger Kiley, agreed that "automobiles are intended to be used in an environment in which a traffic death occurs every eleven minutes and an injury every 19 seconds...