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Dressler was said to be in love with Dreamland's dashing, handlebar-mustachioed, one-armed lion tamer who went by the name of Captain Jack Bonavita.
He appeared in a total of four films with Navarone co-star Gregory Peck, including Captain Horatio Hornblower, RN, and most notably, Moby Dick, in which Robertson-Justice played the one-armed sea captain also attacked by the white whale.

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' He also had been a virtually one-armed fighter, relying almost solely on big right hands ( the so-called " Bionic Right ," so named because it was so often broken, it was allegedly fused as a solid fist, giving Coetzee a supposedly unnaturally powerful punch.

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Looking at his dismal performance with the top black heavyweights of his era and his inability to best a one-armed Jack Johnson, Battling Jim Johnson cannot be considered a top contender of his era or a worthy opponent when Jack awarded him the sole title shot given to a black heavyweight from 1908 to 1937.
The one-armed Phil Cassidy from GTA III appears in Vice City as well, with both arms intact, and one mission actually explains when and how he lost his arm.
The boy recovers and returns to Earth with Titania's curses in his ears, having to come to terms with the revelation that the people he thought of as his parents-a mother who died in a car crash caused by his one-armed, grieving father-might be no relation to him at all.
In 1915, together with Joseph Trumpeldor, a one-armed veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, he created the Zion Mule Corps, which consisted of several hundred Jewish men, mainly Russians, who had been exiled from Palestine by the Turks and had settled in Egypt.
In February 2011, the Belgian television show Basta portrayed, with hidden cameras, how a scammer was fooled during a meeting with baiters, raising the stakes by involving a one-armed man, two dwarves and a pony.
The mosaic and stained glass were the work of the one-armed Australian muralist Napier Waller, who had lost his right arm at Bullecourt during World War I and learned to write and create his works with his left arm.
A national monument in Upper Galilee, Israel commemorates the deaths of eight Jews, six men and two women, among them the one-armed Jewish fighter, a Russian Jew named Joseph Trumpeldor, who died in an engagement on 1 March 1920, with Bedouins, who had been attacking settlements in the area.
" But the OED also states that in modern usage it may be used as a synonym for gangster, hence the term " one-armed bandit " for gambling machines that can leave the gambler with no money.
Looking at his dismal performance with the top black heavyweights of his era and his inability to best a one-armed Jack Johnson, Battling Jim Johnson cannot be considered a top contender of his era or a worthy opponent when Jack awarded him the sole title shot given to a black heavyweight from 1908 to 1937.
The series is written by the Briton Andy Hamilton and the American Jay Tarses, with Tarses playing a sour shopkeeper named Samuel Oliphant and Hamilton playing a cheerfully corrupt, one-legged, one-eyed, one-armed, one-eared one-nostrilled British soldier, Sergeant Roy McGurk, billeted on him.
They include The Thought Gang, about a delinquent and alcoholic philosophy professor who hooks up with a failed one-armed bandit in France to form a successful team of bank robbers, and The Collector Collector, about a weekend in South London, narrated by a 5000 year old Sumerian pot.
Dorgan is generally credited with either creating or popularizing such words and expressions as " dumbbell " ( a stupid person ); " for crying out loud " ( an exclamation of astonishment ); " cat's meow " and " cat's pajamas " ( as superlatives ); " applesauce " ( nonsense ); " cheaters '" ( eyeglasses ); " skimmer " ( a hat ); " hard-boiled " ( a tough person ); " drugstore cowboy " ( loafers or ladies ' men ); " nickel-nurser " ( a miser ); " as busy as a one-armed paperhanger " ( overworked ); and " Yes, we have no bananas ," which was turned into a popular song.
* Bill Raisch is the one-armed man who fights with Douglas in a memorable scene.
He went on to often-memorable guest roles on such series as Oh Father, Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width, and On the Buses, and particularly during the 1970s with a long-running role as the one-armed dishwasher Albert Riddle in the Man About the House spin-off Robin's Nest.
The second season consisted of twenty 48-minute episodes, with an overall story arc concerning an evil scientist called Mantrid, who attempts to kill everyone by converting the entire mass of the universe into one-armed Mantrid drones.
Lorie lived with a one-armed woman named Jodie, whom Jesse eventually realized was his mother, Christina, suffering from amnesia from a gunshot wound delivered by Jody years previous.
While moving backwards to the side, the opponent is pulled past the attacker and out of the ring by grabbing and pulling their arm with both hands ( one-armed shoulder throw ).

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After a violent barroom fight against a one-armed man in which he chooses to use only one arm himself, Burns is arrested.

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However, Schmidt left this composition unfinished, and in the summer and autumn of 1938, a few months before his death, set it aside to devote himself to two other commissioned works for the one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein, for whom he had often composed: the Clarinet Quintet in A major and the solo Toccata in D minor.
In the midst of all this, the commander of the militia, Major Brassey, was arrested for being drunk at his post and was replaced first by Major Stapp and then by Col. St. John, a one-armed veteran of the Crimean War.
His acceptance speech for the award is best remembered for his demonstration of one-armed push-ups, which he claimed convinced studio insurance agents that he was healthy enough to work on the film.
The reservoir is named for explorer John Wesley Powell, a one-armed American Civil War veteran who explored the river via three wooden boats in 1869.
Andrew " Andreas " Katsulas ( May 18, 1946 – February 13, 2006 ) was a Greek-American actor known for his roles as Ambassador G ' Kar in the science fiction television series Babylon 5, as the one-armed villain Sykes in the film The Fugitive ( 1993 ), and as the Romulan Commander Tomalak on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
A number of Auxiliaries were dismissed and prosecuted for theft, including a one-armed former Temporary Cadet, Major Evan Cameron Bruce, who was imprisoned for robbing a creamery, after being dismissed from the Division for striking a civilian without cause.
Filmed on location just prior the park's closure in the fall of 1967, the park's " Mahi, Mahi " ride tower was the setting for the dramatic face off between Dr. Richard Kimble ( David Janssen ) and the fictional one-armed man.
* SAm, in astrophysics, the de Vaucouleurs code for an unbarred one-armed Magellanic spiral galaxy
He was met by the one-eyed, one-armed Major Carton de Wiart who explained that there were no more than 10, 000 Allied troops in Norway-many of them not even trained for battle.
En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a " one-armed man " ( played by Bill Raisch ).
A series of flashbacks reveals the fateful night of Helen Kimble's death, and for the first time offers a glimpse of " the one-armed man ".
Gerard realizes that Kimble must be looking for the one-armed man and begins a similar search to anticipate Kimble's next move.
Swiss one-armed farmer Billy Meier has managed to include every one of the classic 1950s contactees within his own religious framework, and has made room for tens of thousands more, as this reported exchange between Meier and one of his extraterrestrial contacts indicates:
The one-armed Glas reawakens in a meat locker, surprised to find he is still alive ; he surmises that Mr. Lam must be planning a slow death for him.

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The most famous was Mackandal, a one-armed slave, originally from Guinea, who escaped in 1751.
The most famous was Mackandal, a one-armed slave, originally from Guinea ( region ), who escaped in 1751.

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In the mid-19th century, numerous modifications were attempted to alleviate these problems, as well as improve holding power, including one-armed mooring anchors.
As a whole, the shape of Finland's boundaries resembles a figure of a one-armed human.
On the night of September 19, 1961 ,( this date is from " The Judgment Part 1 ") Richard returned home to find Helen murdered and a one-armed man fleeing the scene.
These are the typical " one-armed bandits.
Instead, Tracy appeared as a one-armed protagonist who faces the hostility of a small town in Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1955 ), a film directed by John Sturges.
He was one of several goalkeepers ( Gordon West of Everton was another ) who specialised in a one-armed throw which could achieve a similar distance to a drop kick.
* Amos Moses, a song by Jerry Reed about a fictional one-armed alligator-hunting Cajun man.
Even the old one-armed pirate Mac Tavish is moved to tears of joy by the happy ending.
While Carol Serling was having good luck nearby, he became enslaved by a merciless one-armed bandit, an incident he would turn into one of his first Twilight Zone episodes.
Coburn played the parts of a villainous Texan in the hugely successful Charade ( 1963 ), a glib naval officer in The Americanization of Emily ( 1964 ) and a one-armed Indian tracker in Major Dundee ( 1965 ) gained him much notice.
Concerned that Tracy might not accept, Schary ordered the script changed so that Macreedy was a one-armed man.
Grampa introduces Bart to Herman, the crazed one-armed proprietor of an army surplus store.
* 30 Pete Gray, 87, American one-armed baseball player.
On the way there, MIKE ( Al Strobel ), the one-armed man, shouts madly at Leland from his pick up truck during a traffic jam at the stoplight in town.
Others have noted it reminds them of " a one-armed golfer using an axe to kill a snake in a telephone booth.

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