Word: armes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jack Kemp is a space invader. Anyone in his vicinity is likely to be hugged, grabbed, patted or poked. He can't see a shoulder without draping an arm around it. Bob Dole is an untouchable. He seems to have an invisible force field around him that repels physical intimacy. What happens when an irresistible toucher meets an immovable untouchable? Reserve begins to melt. After Dole's convention speech and the duo's first rally in San Diego on Friday morning, Kemp grabbed Dole's good (left) arm and lifted it high. Both times Dole kept his arm...
...central nervous system does not regenerate the way the peripheral system does," Reeve says. "Someone chops off your arm, and it can be reattached. You might even pitch a baseball someday. But evolution did not do the same thing for the central nervous system. It was explained to me that if the central nervous system of an animal were to regenerate, the animal would not have the speed and agility it once had, and would thus be easy prey. It is better for the animal to just die. Evolution decided that it's better not even to try." The challenge...
...over his ears like a football through the goalposts and ended up on the other side of the jump. Buck went back to the barn with no bridle. And I landed straight on my head because my hands were entangled in the bridle and I couldn't get an arm free to stop my fall. Had I done that, I'd be looking at a sprained wrist. I was heard to say, 'I can't breathe.' And that...
...very much a modern American woman, a successful professional and mother. At the same time, she is very politically expedient. She is touted as the future of the Republican Party, but she now has to compromise herself, since the party opposes issues she strongly supports. She represents the moderate arm of the party, which is only symbolically recognizing her dissent." Although the choice of a pro-choice, pro-gun control legislator did not sit well with the GOP's right, Dole hopes that the charming and energetic Molinari will provide a much-needed link to both women and party moderates...
...recent movements by an alleged Hizballah terrorist named Hussein Mikdad, who is purportedly backed by Iran. On April 4, Mikdad took a Swissair flight from Zurich to Tel Aviv with bomb parts hidden in a carry-on bag. Eight days later, Mikdad blew off both his legs and one arm when a bomb he was assembling in an east Jerusalem hotel room accidentally detonated. Israeli security officials believe Mikdad was building the bomb using a powerful plastic explosive called RDX and planned to place it aboard a flight leaving Ben Gurion Airport. This was the first known time that Hizballah...