Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Russia has built the nuclear energy infrastructure that has allowed Iran to pursue its strategic ambitions, and it may have helped arm Saddam Hussein long after UN sanctions forbade it. Putin recently instructed his defense industry to pursue technologies that would allow Russian missiles to confound the Bush administration's planned missile-defense shield, thereby maintaining the deterrent capability of Moscow's own strategic arsenal. The arrest late last year of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, owner of the massive Yukos oil company, was interpreted by some as a sign that the former KGB colonel-turned-President even planned to reassert state control...
...Washingtonians ... had never seen anything quite like the week of antiwar guerrilla theater staged by Vietnam veterans ... The sponsors called it Operation Dewey Canyon III ... in mocking echo of official U.S. military jargon. They numbered as many as 1,500 veterans ... Some were missing an arm or a leg; some got about in wheelchairs ... Few incidents ... enraged the Vietnam Veterans Against the War as much as did the rumor that President Nixon had said that only 30% of their number were really Vietnam veterans. Though the White House was quick to deny any such statement, the angry veterans collected proof...
...more loss added to her record, Love—who had withstood trial after trial all game long, who had single-handedly kept her team tied with the No. 3 team in the nation for nearly three periods—stood with her stick by her side, her left arm resting atop the goal for support, utterly dejected...
...Garden Street night after night to the old, empty, water-stained Hilles, to wind my limbs around those unaccommodating chairs. Last week I ascended an echoing staircase to the penthouse. (I justified the excursion as a study break: Both of my legs, which I had draped over an arm of one of the chairs, had fallen asleep). There, on the top floor of the library with the lights of duplexes and of the Quad shuttle glinting below me, I found myself alone in the company of soda, snack and coffee machines and expanses of linoleum. “This...
...sang through smiles: with expressive eyes, dancing eyebrows, palpitating breast, and alive fingers that would rub together and flicker like a dancer’s digits ornamenting the end of an extended arm suspended in reach. That is to say, Cecilia Bartoli, the internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano, flirted and seduced the audience at Symphony Hall last Friday night. As part of the FleetBoston Celebrity Series, Bartoli appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment—with whom she performs and works regularly—including their most recent collaboration on her new “Salieri Album...