Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...playing a joke, hitting him in the back with a rock. But it's shrapnel. Suddenly mortar rounds are screaming in, landing all around the Americans. Sergeant David Gilstrap is bleeding; he has been hit in the face. A jagged dart of shrapnel protrudes from Specialist Robert Heiber's arm. It hurts like fire, but Heiber mostly feels anger. He uses his Leatherman pliers to yank out the shrapnel and keeps on firing. When a medic tries to take Heiber back with Gilstrap to the firebase for treatment, Heiber refuses. He is a sniper and has spotted a curl...
Hall jumped backwards, reached back with one outstretched arm and reeled in the overthrown pass as he crashed to the ground in a heap of players on the Harvard two-yard line. The completion electrified the Dartmouth crowd and had the Harvard contingent staring in disbelief...
...best to play along. Walking arm in arm with our peacoated parents, we pointed out our renowned libraries and our world-famous lecture halls. We showed them Annenberg, where Harvard had bountifully covered a table with six varieties of apples on pretty doilies. It was as it should have been: our parents asked about our grades, and we said they were good. At elegant restaurants outside of Harvard, they sipped red wine, we did not, and everyone was happy...
...student was so enthusiastic after Summers showed his fifth-grade class how to plot the relationship between two variables—grades and number of days absent, growth of a plant and amount of sunlight and height and weight—that the student pulled Summers by the arm over to the blackboard and showed him a “tree graph...
...world's two largest cell-phone makers are cleaning house. Motorola's Christopher Galvin, grandson of founder Paul Galvin, resigned as CEO in September after six years at the helm. The company then decided to dump its semiconductor arm. Then Helsinki-based Nokia shuffled top management positions, bringing in Rick Simonson as chief financial officer, the first Yank to crack Nokia's upper ranks...