Word: armless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Armless Parliament. With deliberate optimism, the President left unsaid one fundamental fact: the test which the U.N. faced last week is a bigger one than it was designed to meet. Whatever the world's hopeful liberals and war-weary, propaganda-stuffed peoples may have believed, the hardheaded diplomats who met in San Francisco to write the U.N. Charter in the dying months of World War II had no intention of establishing a world government. At the common insistence of the major powers-the U.S. and Britain were just as adamant as the U.S.S.R.-the U.N.'s founders wrote...
...much of the world, however, the increasing lack of faith in the U.N. was suddenly replaced a fortnight ago by a surge of hope when the armless parliament succeeded in obtaining the ceasefire in Egypt. Said one prominent Egyptian last week: "Arabs have a new attitude toward the U.N. They realize now that it is not simply a camouflage for the ambitions of the big powers." In Germany, Cologne's Neue Rhein Zeitung conceded: "One must state with astonishment that the U.N. is stronger than it seemed." Even New York's xenophobic Daily News (which usually wishes that...
...Plucky Poet. The story of Tsumakichi has the universal appeal of plain grit. During one night of horror in her 17th year, Tsumakichi woke to find a human head rolling past her on the teahouse veranda, saw a samurai sword flash twice toward her own body, leaving her armless. Her berserk adoptive father, the manager of the teahouse, had lopped off the heads of five of the six people sleeping under his roof that night. Primarily a dancer, she painfully mastered a new art. Holding a paintbrush between her teeth, she learned to paint ideograms and to draw designs...
...R.A.E." Man. The East is merciless to cripples. Their families hide them as a horror and disgrace, or turn them out to beg; they hop about on sticks, or crawl on all fours like maimed animals. Some 20,000 of these armless or legless were left in the wake of the Korean war. Three years ago a group of U.S. Christian missionaries set out to help them, and Amputee Torrey found the work for which his whole life seemed a proving ground...
Inside the Taejon clinic one morning last week the homemade kerosene stove was a center of warmth and hope for a little huddJe of maimed men. One sat with his stump tucked under him, an armless boy held his Bible in two hooks. Torrey slipped an elastic from around his Bible, parked it on his arm-hook, and then began reading the 36th Psalm...