Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...play, third quarter: Gordon was helped off the field by trainers with what looked like an arm injury. We'll send along the updates as they come...
...Hawke method is to touch. Shake hands, pat backs, kiss heads. One disheveled man tells him that although he's always voted Liberal, he won't vote for Turnbull: "All he wants is to be Prime Minister with all his money." For that line he gets an arm around him, as does the 92-year-old woman who whispers, "Can we get rid of that bastard?" Amid the laughter, no one checks whether she means Turnbull or the P.M. "You're good at this, Bob," someone shouts. "Thought of running again yourself?" Hawke's heard this before. "Been there, done...
...year-old daughter, and she says she saw the disappointment in her mother-in-law's eyes when she learned the second baby was another girl. But Oanh, 41, couldn't be happier. "Wanting only boys is the old way of thinking," she says, protectively curling an arm around her bulging tummy. "I hope that when my daughters grow up, it won't matter to anyone if their children are boys or girls...
...operations that might escape mention at the recruitment session: The bank plays an important role in underwriting the supporters of Sudan’s genocidal government.The Swiss-based bank is arranging a massive stock offering that could raise more than $8.9 billion for PetroChina, the publicly-listed arm of the China National Petroleum Corp. UBS and PetroChina/CNPC hope that the stock offering will be the largest in Chinese securities-exchange history. Earnings from the stock offering will fund new PetroChina/CNPC projects across the world. And one of the company’s chief growth areas is Sudan, where...
Since the Stone Age, tattooing has been seen as a spiritual ritual, used to mark a right of passage. During the Civil War, getting a flag emblazoned on the arm emerged as a patriotic symbol for soldiers. But in the past few years, the garish body-art trend has taken on an increasingly negative connotation as it has become a signifying mark of street gangs and prison inmates...