Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Continually they would awaken me to do these tests, and continually it was determined that I should reduce my salt intake if I wished to avoid heart trouble in about 30 years. My arm must have forecast the arrival of these tests, because it soon began to contract itself in anticipation...
...cooperation among the long-feuding agencies charged with interdicting drugs. But there are widespread complaints that this has not happened either. The rivalries remain so intense that the Administration has decided to rotate the chairmanship of Alliance among DEA, Customs and the Border Patrol. DEA, an arm of the Justice Department, clears all search warrants. The other agencies have accused DEA of moving slowly when its agents are not part of the action. Suspected drug caches, and the dealers, sometimes vanish before the papers are in hand to make a raid. "The DEA won't work with us," complains...
...ground, weighed down by a stone. His lordship is asked to demonstrate his accuracy with a spear. Lord Delamere shrugs and stands and hurls his spear, impaling the blank page. The visitor asks to borrow the spear so that he might try. Alas, he does not straighten his arm, as in a javelin throw, but starts the motion somewhere behind his right ear, as if throwing a fastball. The spear sails up, too high, and at the apex, points straight skyward, and then collapses in the air, subsiding downward on its butt, ignominiously, like one of the early failed rockets...
...Moses derive the left-handed theory from that?) to swerve around the onrushing bus. The wildest animal on the road is the matatu, a jitney designed to carry about eight passengers. Instead, it customarily holds 20 Africans or more, some spilling out the back door, hanging on with one arm. The matatu is a hurtling metal beast with people in its belly, an event of nature on the highways. "Aieee! Aieee! Matatu!" Matatu owners have a witty taste for apocalypse. One of them named his matatu the Enola Gay. Another proclaims itself the Stairway to Heaven. Not reassuring...
During his five years as a backup quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, Bob Waters, now 48, suffered more than his share of bruises and broken bones. Thus when he began to experience some shakiness in his right arm more than four years ago, he simply chalked it up to an old playing injury that had been repaired with a metal plate. "My doctors and I decided that, well, maybe it has something to do with the metal," says Waters, who coaches at Western Carolina University. But gradually, as the muscle spasms spread and both arms weakened, Waters became alarmed...