Word: caning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to like him for it. Lisa Sloan is marvelously attractive and genuine as Kathy Marianne Owen, a consummate actress when intact, is literally hobbled by a huge cast on her leg that forces her to lumber around the stage, punctuating her speech with thrusts of an orthopedic cane, in a way Adrienne, without a broken foot, never would...
...astrolabe, six suits of tropical linen and a sou'wester, a camp operating table and set of surgical instruments, a portable humidor, guaranteed to preserve cigars in condition in the Red Sea, and a Christmas hamper complete with Santa Claus costume and a tripod mistletoe stand, and a cane for whacking snakes...
...victims, age one to 82, died during or soon after assaults with a variety of weapons, including a cane, a coat hanger, a belt, an electric cord and a shoe. Yet the physical injuries they suffered should not have killed them. Then, what did? The disparate group was culled by Pathologists Marilyn Cebelin and Charles Hirsch from a list of 497 assault cases that occurred in Cleveland between 1950 and 1979. After reviewing autopsy and police reports, tissue slides and hospital charts, the doctors report in Human Pathology that eleven of the 15 people had lesions in the heart similar...
...been stalled by a standoff between the Greater London Council, which wants to rehabilitate the square speedily, and the more snail-paced local Westminster Council, which objects to the statue on aesthetic grounds. So six months after he was cast, Chaplin still stands, replete with crooked cane, cockeyed derby, sagging frock coat, baggy pants and oversize shoes, in the studio of Sculptor John Doubleday, 33. It was a bureaucratic impasse that the maker of Modern Times would have relished...
Plants store carbon in the form of carbohydrates that can easily be converted by fermentation into alcohol, a convenient liquid form of fuel, Calvin said. This process has worked successfully for sugar cane in Brazil and corn crops in the United states, he added...