Word: legless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sine (real name: Maurice Sinet), 29, France's highest-paid freelance artist (posters, stage sets, animated ads). Sine's more innocent drawings include murders -a wife eating her husband's brains after dicing his skull like a melon. His really mordant streak is reserved for legless cripples who leave their carts outside Moslem temples beside the shoes of other visitors and boy scouts who thumb rides from Christ as he walks with his cross...
...West Indian island of Curaçao, the scheme exterminated the island's flies in less than a year (TIME. Feb. 7, 1955). Last spring the USDA and the Florida Livestock Board set up a million-dollar screwworm factory at Sebring, Fla. The fierce, legless maggots are fed on 80,000 Ibs. a week of mixed whale and horse meat flavored with 4,500 gals, of beef blood. When they get their growth and turn into pupae, they are harvested, packed into aluminum canisters, and exposed for 6-2 minutes to gamma rays from radioactive cobalt...
Asserting that "we can no longer depend on the Supreme Court to save us from the actions of irresponsible legislatures," Howe spoke at a Liberal Union forum on the "Case of the Legless Veteran." James Kutcher, the legless veteran, who was dismissed from the Veterans Administration because of his membership in the Socialist Workers' Party was the other speaker...
...R.A.E." Man. The East is merciless to cripples. Their families hide them as a horror and disgrace, or turn them out to beg; they hop about on sticks, or crawl on all fours like maimed animals. Some 20,000 of these armless or legless were left in the wake of the Korean war. Three years ago a group of U.S. Christian missionaries set out to help them, and Amputee Torrey found the work for which his whole life seemed a proving ground...
When it was over, a legless man nodded in Reuben Torrey's direction and whispered to a visitor from the U.S.: "We Koreans feel he's a man sent here...