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Word: arrowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Slow Fade. Thurber is not totally blind. At the age of six, he lost his left eye when one of his brothers accidentally shot him with an arrow. For about the next 40 years, his right eye did double duty, then it failed him; ten years ago, Thurber underwent five extremely painful operations on it for cataract and trachoma. The eye has since had one-eighth vision, not enough for a 56-year-old writer to get himself around with safety. The shins of the long, gangling (6 ft. 1½ in., 154 Ibs.) Thurber bear a mass of scars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Priceless Gift of Laughter | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

With Bow & Arrow. Out of his original 80,000 feet, Queeny already has finished a second film, a two-reeler on the ancient music of a tribe in Uganda, near Lake Victoria. He plans a feature-length "fantasy" showing how the Wakamba tribe hunts elephants with bow & arrow, another two-reeler about a strange signaling bird that leads natives to caches of honey, and possibly still another feature on the safari itself. Beyond that, Queeny wants to ride his hobby on another expedition. "I don't know yet where it will be," he says. "It will be some place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Safari in Color | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...Night Express was lying just beyond a blind curve, and its brakeman had hurried a thousand feet back along the tracks with a red flag in his hand. When he saw the Red Arrow rumbling toward him, he stood between the rails in the bright morning sunshine and waved desperately. He had to jump for his life. As the Red Arrow rounded the curve, its horn blasted. Then, with a roar and a blinding electric flash, its locomotive sliced through the rear Pullman of the express, derailed the car ahead, reared like a wounded beast, and toppled sideways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Wreck of the Red Arrow | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Eight passengers were killed and 63 injured.* At week's end there was no official explanation of the wreck. But a doctor who examined the Red Arrow's 62-year-old Engineman F. B. Yentzler after the wreck reported that he was suffering from what appeared to be a cataract, and from all initial tests, was virtually blind in his right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Wreck of the Red Arrow | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...Thirteen passengers were killed, 103 injured in 1947 when the Red Arrow jumped the tracks on Bennington Curve near Altoona, Pa. Total casualties from wrecks on the Pennsylvania Railroad in the past 18 months: 123 dead, 931 injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Wreck of the Red Arrow | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

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