Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shirt from the back of one camper, who lunged in desperation and hit the bear on the nose. When the grizzly reared to its full height, the campers bolted for trees, but Michele Koons, 19, caught in her sleeping bag, was dragged away screaming, "He's ripping my arm! My God, I'm dead...
First to die was John Kent ("Shob") Carter, 25, whose body was found one night in his psychedelically painted apartment. He had been stabbed twelve times with a butcher knife, and his right arm was severed at the elbow. A few days later near Sausalito, a pair of hikers discovered the body of William
Ridiculous Ruse. This time, Voznesensky is sore at the Union of Writers, the party's all-powerful cultural arm that oversees literary activities in the Soviet Union. It was bad enough that the union turned thumbs down on the invitation he had received to give a poetry reading at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival in Manhattan last June, but the style of the denial, he said, was insufferable. It was not until four days before his departure that the union told him the trip was "inadvisable"-presumably because someone had belatedly remembered the rhapsodic verse he wrote about...
...determine if it is ready for harvest. Similarly, an asparagus harvester is electronically activated only by stalks of the proper shape and size. For such products as apricots and olives, engineers are experimenting with shaking-and-catching devices already in use on prunes, peaches and apples; a mechanical arm clutches the tree and shakes it until the fruit drops into a canvas catching frame...
United States diplomats and economists have struggled for years to achieve a significant international move toward trade liberalization. The recently-concluded Kennedy Round of tariff-cutting negotiations, which was a momentous advance for the U.S. and many other nations, required much bargaining and arm-twisting. In the end, the U.S. received tariff-reduction commitments at least equal in value to those it made. The final result is a balance of mutual opportunities that should greatly stimulate and increase international trade. The advantages to all countries involved are undeniable...