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Word: handless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headless, handless body of a woman covered with green algae was fished out of a lake in upstate New York. The hospital pathologist who performed the autopsy judged the slim, athletically built victim to be in her 20s and said she had been dead three weeks. A few days later, medical examiner Michael Baden autopsied the body and came to a startlingly different conclusion. Bone spurs on the woman's spine and her atrophied ovaries revealed that she was about 55 years old, and microscopic study of the algae indicated that the body had been in the water at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Coroners Who Miss All the Clues | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...became a rats' alley of pimps and porn), to the now disappearing bric-a-brac shops and bookstalls that used to line Fourth Avenue from the Bowery to Union Square. He spent these sojourns sorting through boxes of old embrowned photos, picking over trays of shells or handless watches, haunting the penny arcades, gazing mildly through shop windows at working girls whom he would never approach -a flaneur, not of self-display but of urban reverie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Linking Memory and Reality | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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