Word: forearming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bullets hit Somoza in the right forearm and broke it. Two others lodged painfully in his right shoulder and right thigh. The fourth, Dr. Heaton found, was the most serious: it had entered through the upper right thigh and stopped at the base of the spine. The doctor's recommendation was an operation at the Canal Zone's famed Gorgas Hospital. At 3 a.m. a blue ambulance crept through the lonely, moonlit streets of Managua. Only four hours after Heaton's Constellation reached Managua, it was headed toward Panama with Somoza, his wife, and the task force...
...Then they tried counteracting the hormone with vitamins B 6 , B 12 and C. Thus protected, mouse mothers produced young with normal palates. Other defects often seen in the newborn that may result from the same sort of stress, the doctors suggest, are absence of a collarbone or forearm bone, displacement of the heart, Mongolism (TIME. Aug. 13) and water on the brain. But confirmation of this theory and of the protective effect of vitamins must await further research...
...years has been tremendous For several years in the '40s Anna kept company with Director Roberto Rosselmi, and the incidental breakage was impressive. Crockery flew and so did curses frequently in public. Once, when Roberto displeased her. Anna cleared a restaurant table with one queenly swipe of her forearm. When he left her for Ingrid Bergman, Magnani sulked in her flat. "I am a desperate woman," she announced. "When 1 suffer, I must suffer until my heart breaks." Nevertheless, Anna quickly sublimated sorrow into art. What another actress must grasp with her intelligence Magnani has in her blood. "Myself...
...while making a relatively mild 20-g deceleration to test a harness while sitting on a seat-pack parachute. The quick stop threw him forward, the weight of his body thrust against his palms where they rested on handholds. "A severe pain was felt [in] the right forearm," wrote Stapp in his report. "The right wrist had been taped with adhesive because of a previous fracture . . . This tape burst . . . The pain in the coccyx and sacrum sprained in previous runs was renewed...
...board chairman of the Sperry Corp. Like Gray, he grew up in North Carolina, but on a different level. The son of an impoverished tobacco farmer, he worked his way through high school, enlisted in the Navy (he still bears a permanent souvenir of his Navy days: a forearm rose tattoo). One day in 1911, aboard the battleship U.S.S. Delaware, Chief Electrician Morgan helped an inventor named Elmer Sperry install a new gyroscopic compass for a test. Sperry was so impressed that he hired Morgan, who worked up through the Sperry ranks, became president in 1928, expanded the firm into...