Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Driver Reynolds became the first U. S. Senator to be cleaned out by bandits. Stopped by a traffic jam, Senator Reynold was approached by several Mexicans. His story: "They were not abusive, only businesslike. I thought they were merely customs officials. When one of them took off my wrist watch and pocketed it, I realized they were highwaymen. Then he felt in my pocket and took out a roll of American bills [$200]. . . . When the bandits had finished with me, I walked ahead and saw Skewes Saunders, an Englishman who had previously been knocked unconscious when he resisted search...
...horizontal iron rod, which passes under the Yogi's arm to the upper side of his body, and from the end of which he is suspended by means of some sort of harness around his body. The rod is concealed by his half-closed hand and voluminous, wrist-length sleeves...
...struck, careened through a crowd of spectators, crashed on top of a sound truck. Sportsman Spreckels was catapulted into the air against a telephone pole where he hung by an arm impaled on one of the climbing spikes. Taken down unconscious, with the arm torn open from shoulder to wrist, he was hospitalized with one of the spectators...
Past students and teachers who had excitedly poured from their classrooms bounded John P. Weller. Reaching the campus, he plunged into a clump of bushes, fired two more shots. His protruding legs stiffened starkly. When physicians arrived, they treated Dr. Kurz for a wrist wound, found Instructor Weller dead with a bullet in his heart...
Among those pulled to safety in the Pan American rescue launch were onetime Actress Claiborne Foster (Mrs. Maxwell Rice) and famed Pianist-Conductor Jose Iturbi, bound on a South American tour. In the melee someone trod violently on the musician's wrist. He announced sadly that he would not be able to play for several months...