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Word: arming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widely-held theory to explain Silber's combativeness is that he is out to prove himself. Silber's right arm ends in a knob at his elbow--the result of a birth defect--and some say he is still revenging himself upon the school children who taunted him as a child...

Author: By Nicholas D. Kristof, | Title: John R. Silber: War and Peace at Boston University | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

Youth corps members Pat Horne, Nancy Boutillier, Ann Scannell, Marget Long and Frenesa Hall, will "give the team a shot in the arm," Coach Carole Kleinfelder said Monday. "They are really charged up and should provide us with a lot of spark...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Women Cagers Aim For Title | 11/28/1979 | See Source »

...headed for Jackson Memorial Hospital. There he grabbed a nurse and pushed her into the car, but the woman slid out the opposite door before he could drive off. By now police radios all over the city were crackling: Look out for a white Dodge Dart with an arm protruding from the side of the rusted trunk. Mullins ditched the Dodge, flagged down another motorist, pistol-whipped him and took his car. Minutes later Mullins appeared at a restaurant, where he assaulted a woman and ran off with her purse. At a nearby street corner he picked up a young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Briefs | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

This political arm-twisting has turned the EPA's regulatory efforts into, as one congressman put it, "a complete joke." Top agency officials have exempted from regulation more than half of all hazardous wastes--some tens of thousands of substances known to cause birth defects, mutations, radiation poisoning and infectious diseases. Branch chief Sanjour observes, "Whereas previously these wastes may have been disposed of inadequately and secretly, they can soon (thanks to a clean bill of health from EPA) be disposed of inadequately and openly." He concludes, "The actions taken by EPA are, quite simply, illegal...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: The Politics of Pollution | 11/21/1979 | See Source »

...your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral: But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie, Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Leader of the Gang | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

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