Word: armfuls
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...complete control of the crocodile. Robert was tucked right in my arm." STEVE IRWIN, crocodile hunter, after criticism of a stunt in which he carried his 1-month-old baby while feeding a crocodile...
...folksy, quick-to-mist-up touch. "There's a different way I do empathy," Dean says. "I kind of lean into them, and I look at them, and I'll let them know I'm really paying careful attention to what they say. But I don't put my arm around them and all that stuff. Because it's true: when you present me with a problem, I want to solve the problem." Dean maintains a certain detachment, he says, because he remembers how his emotions made him incapable of assisting a critically wounded 9year-old drive-by-shooting victim...
...going out to guard the ball,” Holsey said, “and I just put my arm up, and it came out. I didn’t touch anything...
...conference of relief and development nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) last May. These groups were receiving government funding to pursue humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. But he reportedly reproached them for failing to make clear to the citizens of those nations that they are “an arm of the U.S. government.” According to those present, he then “threatened to personally tear up their contracts and find new partners...
Ever since the incident, soldiers have been coming up to Michael to thank him for saving the lives of their colleagues. "All I did was follow my instincts," he says. The day before he left Germany, his nurse, Captain Nina McCoy from San Antonio, Texas, held his arm and walked him up and down the hallway for exercise. Michael, 57, was trying to explain to her--and perhaps to himself--that it was good that he was at his age when this happened, saying he couldn't imagine what it was like for younger people who had yet to figure...