Word: armful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...submarine's mechanical arm apparently was used to transfer the plaque to the stern, said officials of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution...
...chair was designed for the Kabarett Fledermaus (1907), a club by and for the avant-garde. The regularity of its limbs and parts is strict, but as with all the best Wiener Werkstatte work, severity is not carried too far. Six wood spheres, billiard ball-size, tucked under each arm and atop each leg, are a perfect ornamental gesture, precise and machined but irrational...
During the five-hour procedure, an Allegheny plastic surgeon detached a latissimus dorsi--a broad muscle that plays a nonessential role in controlling arm motion--from its connection points along the spine. Magovern slipped it into the chest cavity with the muscle's nerve system and major blood supply intact, then wrapped it around Jones' heart like a towel. After a week's recovery time, he began stimulating the transplanted skeletal muscle with a pacemaker, causing it to contract and help pump blood. Less than a year later, Jones reports that she can walk a mile or two without difficulty...
Clemens is a true pheenom, the first for Boston since Jim Lonborg, who won 22 in 1967, wrecked his career in a skiing accident and became a dentist. Clemens almost went the way of Lonborg: he missed much of last year with arm and shoulder injuries and after surgery began spring training throwing like an old man. By April 29, however, he threw hard enough to strike out 20 Seattle Mariners in a nine-inning game, breaking by one K a major-league record held by Seaver, among others. When Cooperstown asked for his glove, cap, uniform and spikes, Clemens...
Nikko could hardly have picked a more knowledgeable man for the job. The 60-year-old Axilrod has been at the Federal Reserve since 1952 and for the past seven years has been Chairman Paul Volcker's right arm...