Word: armed
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...rose halfway, leaned to the right, and cupped the object. I might as well have plucked volcanic lava from a crater. I could feel the flesh of my palm liquefying. Pain bolted up my arm like an electric current. In one fluid motion, I raised my right arm and started to throw the mass over the side of the vehicle, a short backhand toss. Then everything went dark...
...humvee bed was cold and hard, an inhospitable place to awaken. I struggled to sit up and fell back. My right leg burned from knee to hip. Blood was oozing from it; my right arm felt heavy and numb. Was I having a nightmare? The hollow, faraway sound of voices was dreamlike. I shook my right arm, trying to wake it up. Still no response. I elevated...
...scores a week ago, and you have two formidable players on both sides of the ball.“He’s one of the best quarterbacks we’ll see this year,” Berg said of DiGiacomo. “He has a great arm, he’s pretty mobile, he can run when he needs to, and we’re hoping to limit his production this year more than past years.”Murphy agreed.“DiGiacomo is probably the best quarterback in the league...
Harvard’s endowment grew $3.3 billion during the fiscal year ending June 30, reaching an all-time high of $29.2 billion, according to figures released today. The Harvard Management Company (HMC), the internal arm responsible for managing the University’s endowment, returned 16.7 percent on its investments. This year’s performance was “just above the average” for the 25 largest university endowments, HMC President Mohamed A. El-Erian wrote in his first annual “John Harvard” letter. It is down from last year?...
...NASA on Wednesday cleared Atlantis to land in Florida at 6:21 a.m. Thursday - one day late - after astronauts performed two extra inspections of the shuttle's critical heat shield using a camera mounted atop the craft's 100-foot robotic arm and boom. No damage was found...