Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prisoners' steadfast resistance. As Navy Captain Jeremiah Denton said, "We forced them to be brutal to us." Even those who considered their treatment comparatively mild, such as Air Force Captain Joseph Milligan, often suffered enormously. Provided totally inadequate medical attention, Milligan treated-and cured-a badly burned arm by letting maggots eat away the pus, then cleaning off the maggots with his own urine...
...nature's miracles, few have intrigued scientists more than the phenomenon of regeneration. The lowly starfish can regrow any missing parts and may even produce an entire creature from a single arm; the salamander can regenerate much of its body. Higher animals, however, lack this ability. Mammals cannot replace a missing tail or internal organs. In man, skin and bone regrowth comes closest to the true regenerative process...
...discloses are almost inexhaustible: how the satyr's muscular determination, for instance, is summed up in a single inflection of drawing, the grasping hands given a shade more density than the rest of his body; or how the falling curve of the nymph's back and arm, diving out of the frame, is also a rising arch that offers itself to the pursuer. One line becomes an epigram of flight and surrender...
This is the final word on the mouth. It is useless now to anyone in its unbending hate. It is useless to her in its deadness. And if thy right arm offend thee...
...boundary between winter and spring. When the college swimming season finally ends with a splash at the NCAAs, then I know the winter, and what a long one it was, is finally and irretrievably over. This means I can take out my baseball glove and proceed to throw my arm...