Word: armfuls
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...bombarding the coast. "The destroyers had run in almost to the beach and were blowing every pillbox out of the ground with their five-inch guns," wrote Ernest Hemingway, who watched from one of the landing craft. "I saw a piece of German about three feet long with an arm on it sail high up into the air in the fountaining of one shellburst. It reminded me of a scene in Petrouchka...
...fault in the first place. If she had been a better wife, if she hadn't nagged that one time, or burned the dinner the other time, or burned the dinner the other time, maybe she wouldn't have the scars on her face or the bruises on her arm...
...Salon Bleu until that afternoon. Some ministers were having a late breakfast, though, and they quickly barricaded themselves in the legislature's restaurant. But Assembly employees had no protection. "I'm sorry for wounding you," the assailant reportedly told a worker shot in the arm during the fracas, "but that's life...
Despite their derring-do, dealmakers are little known outside financial circles. One reason is their penchant for secrecy. If word of a prospective merger gets out prematurely, it can drive up the price of the target company or invite competing offers. At Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, the investment banking arm of the big brokerage house, phones are swept for eavesdropping equipment and trash is routinely shredded. The staff is trained not to talk in elevators or on public transportation, and code names are used when a deal is in progress. Explains Ken Miller, 41, who heads the 35-person department...
...member of Herzog's class: the pensive man driven to distraction or worse by the messy betrayals of life. What Kind of Day Did You Have? presents a mirror image of this condition. Victor Wulpy, 70, is "a world-class intellectual" who is trying to keep life at arm's length. He has "arranged his ideas in well-nigh final order: none of the weakness, none of the drift that made supposedly educated people contemptible...