Word: armfuls
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...team’s tough guy thinks he’s got the ref looking the other way and lines up your top scorer for the friendliest of gestures: a two-hander to the back. But as the surging stick sends the unsuspecting star tumbling forward, an orange-banded arm shoots into...
...grant him carte blanche to defy the law. But the timing of the industrialist’s arrest—he has been more critical of the Kremlin of late and appeared to be considering a presidential run—and Putin’s demonstrated penchant for strong-arm politics make it impossible to believe that Khodorkovsky is sitting behind bars right now because of tax evasion. Indeed, if anything, Khodorkovsky has done more to promote responsibility and transparency in Russian industry than any other industrialist in the country. Most Western observers consider him the model Russian businessman?...
...begins with Chavez sitting on a dorm room desk, bobbing his head and waving his arms to the remix, while Fang, Mao, and Nguyen sway arm-in-arm in the background. When Kelly croons, “You must be a football coach/The way you’ve got me playing the field,” Fang is hit in the face by a football propelled at high velocity from an unspecified source. Other highlights include Chavez downing a gallon of milk on “sippin’ on coke and rum;” Nguyen?...
...unilateral and pre-emptive policy vis-?-vis "rogue states" should stand as a warning to sycophantic countries. Still, despite Malaysia's success, one has to wonder if it might have been possible for Mahathir to achieve all that he did without resorting to strong-arm tactics, like jailing his political rival Anwar Ibrahim. If development could have been achieved without sacrificing democracy, then Malaysians would be enjoying a free press, and the country would be a better model for democratic but underdeveloped countries in Asia. Mark Andrew Lim Cavite, the Philippines...
Cavanagh’s second goal came with 2:24 left in the second, capping a 30-second possession in the Dartmouth zone. Packard warded off a defender with one arm to gain possession, and used the other to send a pass to Cavanagh in front. He crept in, took aim and picked the far corner for his 24th career goal...