Word: arms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coroner who examined Walt found scar tissue under the skin of the boy's arm, indicating that he had shot heroin before. There was no evidence of the needle tracks common to hardcore addicts. Still, Walter weighed only 80 lbs.; so a double injection of heroin -the suspected dosage-would have been enough to depress his breathing and kill him. Was he deliberately given too powerful a dose? Maybe he had threatened a pusher, many of whom are his own age. Or did he perhaps know exactly what he was doing...
...Mitchell can persuade their fellow board members to ease up on money. President Nixon can cajole the members, but legally he cannot control the actions of the board, which is independent of the executive branch. As a practical matter, though, the board would find it difficult to resist presidential arm-twisting...
Kilbreth, taking the witness stand in Offner's defense, said that he himself had "seized his [Watson's] right arm in order to get him out of the building." and that Offner had not been present when Watson was pushed out of University Hall. Offner is appealing a four-month jail sentence for the offense...
Kilbreth had testified at the November 18 trial of Carl D. Offner, a former teaching fellow in Mathematics convicted of pushing Dean Watson out of University Hall, that he had "seized his [Watson's] right arm in order to get him out of the building...
Watson, in his original testimony con-cerning the incident, stated, "A group of people grabbed me and started to shove me out of the building. I recognized one as Offner, who was holding my right arm. They shoved me against a wall of people with enough force to knock several of them down...