Word: arms
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When Dr. Kirk got Mayor Wooden on the phone, he told him that they had a serious public health threat on their hands. Wooden didn't need to have his arm twisted. "If it's a real problem," he said, "let's deal with...
...thrust us into this maelstrom, and his superb editing creates from these bits and pieces a mosaic of terror. We see as the soldiers see, from belly level, in flashes and fragments, none more vivid than the shot, rendered almost casually, of a soldier staggering along, carrying his severed arm--the struggle against mortality encapsulated in what amounts to a sidelong glance...
...world champion hoopsters. "The fans around here are crazy about Sosa," says Ron Stampley, manager of the Cubby Bear, a popular sports bar near Wrigley Field. "They cheer for him as loudly as they cheer for Jordan." Indeed, Sosa's slugging streak, along with wunderkind pitcher Kerry Wood's arm and first baseman Mark Grace's hot bat, is helping to make the long-hapless Cubs into contenders for the first time in a decade. Having played well over .500 ball all season, by last Saturday the team was just 5 games out of first place in the central division...
DIED. SID LUCKMAN, 81, Chicago Bears Hall of Fame quarterback with a mind as potent as his arm; in North Miami Beach. After joining the Bears in 1939, Luckman perfected the T-formation offense, memorizing 350 plays in the team's repertoire and changing the way the game was played for the next decade. He led an All Star-packed lineup, dubbed the Monsters of the Midway, to four NFL championships in seven years, beginning with a 73-0 rout of the Washington Redskins in the 1940 title game...
...process, I have been trampled, kicked, spat on and cursed. I have observed a small, silver blade snake down the arm of a fellow reporter, leaving a red trail. I have been called a murderer--a murderer only because I am white, only because I am trying to rationalize the hatred...