Word: armfuls
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...stand upright. Hunched and shivering with fear, I scuttled over to the rail and clutched it. Do not let me die, I prayed, oh, please don’t let me die. As soon as I could rely on my legs again, I descended the 99 steps, dragging my arm against the cool, solid core of the tower to ground...
...whiz in high school and was a member of the debate team, marching band and National Honor Society. He listened to heavy metal and at parties would rip phone books in half to impress the girls. Proud of his father's brief boxing career, he would often cock his arm and make ready to land a punch on your jaw, says a former classmate, Jacob Zamansky. Grubman's first job was in strategic planning at AT&T. He later became an analyst at PaineWebber but made his name at Salomon pounding the table for WorldCom in the mid-'90s, with...
Since the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, a fragmented al-Qaeda has been relying on its associate groups in Asia, the Middle East and the Caucuses to continue its fight. Of all these groups, Jemaah Islamiah (JI), al-Qaeda's Southeast Asian and Australian arm, has been by far the most active. The countries that took it least seriously until the Bali bombings?Indonesia, Australia and Thailand?are precisely where JI has had most freedom of movement. It's not hard to deduce why Bali struck JI as an ideal target. After all, JI was more constrained in mounting an operation...
Throughout much of the first half, yards had come at a premium for Harvard. But Fitzpatrick assumed the reins of the Crimson offense with just under five minutes remaining in the second quarter and energized the Harvard attack, using both his arm and his legs to lead the Crimson to three third-quarter touchdowns...
...resulting six-photo series is presented alongside a new exhibition of the artist's work at Verona's Palazzo Forti. We see the elegantly-dressed Fontana approaching a solid white canvas, a Stanley utility knife gripped tightly in his right hand. In successive shots, we see him with his arm raised and the blade about to pierce the center of the pristine surface; in a whirlwind of motion finishing off the single top-to-bottom slash of the canvas with his knife; and finally, standing by the completed work - a 1.5-m-by-1.5-m white canvas with an enormous...