Word: arms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave -- arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit that he also reminds me of my father, quite an overbearing and narcissistic character. And in some ways, he reminds me of myself. Another workaholic...
...Croatian security forces and Serbian paramilitary units escalate, the incidents are getting increasingly ugly. Last week a policeman was killed in a shoot-out with a Serb barricaded in a house with his wife in the city of Osijek. The Serb was also killed, and his wife lost an arm while trying to pick up a police grenade and toss it back...
Japanese police have been investigating West Tsusho, which press reports say is an arm of a company controlled by Susumu Ishii, onetime head of Japan's second largest crime syndicate. Documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission show that Bush helped West Tsusho invest heavily in two American firms: Quantum Access, a Houston-based software company, and Asset Management International Financing & Settlement, a New York City-based firm...
...antithesis of what Nehru, and to some extent Gandhi, represented. It rejects the "foreign" influences of Islam, Christianity, capitalism and socialism, and aspires to restore Rama Rajya, a mythical golden age of Hindu civilization when the Hindu god Rama ruled. In less than two years, the movement's political arm, the Bharatiya Janata Party, led by L.K. Advani, 63, has moved from the margins to the center of Indian politics...
When Lea Ann and Brad Curry of Lanesville, Ind., first lifted the hands of tiny daughter Natalie, their hearts clutched. The baby's left thumb was missing, and her right thumb was useless. The radius bone was missing from the infant's left arm. The doctors' diagnosis was devastating: Fanconi's anemia. Unless Natalie received a new immune system from transplanted stem cells, the units from which all blood cells derive, she faced a short life of severe anemia and possible retardation...