Word: torsos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Reagan's program triumphed last week, O'Neill tried to hold his ground. He sat in the Speaker's vast office, his huge 260-lb. torso looking like a giant plum pudding, his long white hair falling over his blue eyes. As a television screen in the far corner of the room carried speeches from the House floor, he talked about the rising criticism of his leadership. "It hurts," he said, putting his sinewy hands on his knees. "It hurts a lot." Then he leaned forward in his chair, his massive head thrust out. "Wait till...
...Within minutes, 16 shells exploded in the center of the city, blasting cafés, an amusement hall and a Maronite Christian church. Among the dead were 16 backgammon players in a local café. One survivor was seen running along the road screaming, as he carried the severed torso of a youth...
Launching a group of rhesus monkeys with the shuttle's Spacelab in 1984, Moore-ede believes he will confirm his finding that a shift of blood in the monkeys from the lower extremities to the torso because of changes in gravity accelerates their loss of fluids and purges high levels of potassium...
...noise of a revolver fired too close to his ear while he filmed a movie in the 1930s. He also has an arthritic right thumb, and suffers from hay fever. Reagan rides and uses an exercise wheel regularly. According to his doctor, the wheel has contributed to "his upper torso and chest muscles [being] really well preserved...
This city hasn't mobilized such a police force--one-third of Cleveland's finest to say nothing of the swarming Secret Service--since the 1930s, when the "Mad Murderer of Kingsbury Run" stalked downtown streets committing the "torso murders." "A head here and an arm mere," as the city's unofficial historian recalled today...