Word: armless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were designed to keep the sexes separate and unequal. The gentlemen's chairs were "akin to thrones," according to this diverting account of everyday life in the Victorian era. While men sat back comfortably in their high-backed chairs equipped with arm rests, women were confined to smaller, armless models that encouraged the proper posture: upright, away from the chair back, hands modestly folded...
With its round head, beady eyes and red-buttoned pot belly, it looks like an armless, three-foot-high plastic snowman. Rolling across the floor on big black wheels, it embodies one of man's most enduring dreams: the personal robot, programmed to do its master's bidding. Inside its molded skull a kind of sassy intelligence seems to be at work. "What strange-looking creatures," it intones nasally in the direction of some gawking visitors at its home base, Androbot, Inc., in Sunnyvale, Calif. "Where are your wheels...
...half Lebanese, who boasts pleasantly about the celebrities who have dined at his place. Producing a huge, elaborate guest book, he points out the autographs of Candice Bergen and David Niven. Below the restaurant, a museum bar displays statuettes snatched from the sea-Phoenician, Hittite, Greek, Roman, Persian-headless, armless relics of former powers...
...really be concerned with this since his new love, a Puerto-Rican nurse, has a dark secret and the local drug-dealer is up to no good and the whole neighborhood is being torn apart by riots. Gould orchestrates these dramatic situations with the skill of an armless conductor...
...around him at a former military officers' club in Tehran. "Waldheim, look at us," shouted one of the wounded demonstrators. "Give the Shah back to us!" One man plucked out his glass eye and shouted: "That's what the Shah did to me!" Another lifted up his armless five-year-old son and told Waldheim that the Shah's secret police had mutilated the child in an attempt to wring a confession from his older brother, who was an anti-Shah dissident...