Word: armfuls
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When President Bush returned from his bike ride last week carrying I am Charlotte Simmons under his arm, observers seemed more worried about whether he had completed the novel than whether the Leader of the Free World should be reading and mountain biking simultaneously. The President was supposed to have finished Tom Wolfe's critique of political correctness on college campuses months ago, so why was he hanging on to it now? White House aides were quick to put minds at ease. Bush's biking partner for the day, Mike Wood, had borrowed the book-which includes ample accounts...
Wilson, Harvard’s third baseman-cum-closer, meanwhile, unveiled his pitching arm at the hot corner, picking a tricky groundball with a nifty backhand before firing it to first for the third out of the inning...
...absence of any other diagnostic equipment, however, the doctors had underestimated the seriousness of the injuries to Salah's left arm. "It looks superficial, and we have stopped the blood loss," said Emad. But he was unable to see that Salah had suffered two torn nerves, damaged tendons and, most dangerous of all, two torn arteries. The only blood flow to his arm was coming from collateral circulation, from minor blood vessels and capillaries in the skin. Left in that condition, the hand would have been irreparably damaged in two or three days...
...clinic. The floors are cleaned more often than at Yarmouk, the air-conditioning works, and there are fewer flies. Harthiya also has more modern equipment. Working in more salubrious conditions, Dr. Raed Abbas, a private surgeon, was able to diagnose the full extent of the damage to Salah's arm. But the best he could do was repair one artery. It didn't look likely that the arm and hand would regain full function, he said, but it was all he could do. "Your friend," he said, "has already been luckier than anybody else in his position. At this point...
Wilson, Harvard’s third baseman-cum-closer, also unveiled his pitching arm at the hot corner, picking a tricky groundball backhanded before firing it to first for the third out of the inning...