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After medic Billie Grimes stopped the bleeding with an elastic cord, I was rushed in the humvee to a nearby brigade clinic and then medevacked to a U.S. Army hospital elsewhere in Baghdad for surgery to clean what was left of my arm and the shrapnel wounds in my right thigh. There, I learned that everyone else in the back of the humvee had survived, though Jenks had serious leg wounds, Beverly had knee and hand injuries and Nachtwey had taken shrapnel in his knees and abdomen. The next morning, a middle-aged nurse with blond highlights approached...
...open. Tensing the inner muscle would close it. My first lesson with an occupational therapist, Captain Kathleen Yancosek, focused on how to isolate those muscles. Using a tool called "Myo-boy," Captain Katie strapped electrodes onto each of my forearm muscles and plugged the other end of a cord into a laptop computer. The object was to generate a spike on the monitor by flexing the right muscle. I jerked, twitched and turned my stump. Nothing happened. I pumped again, hunting for the right spot, but the monitor stayed blank. When I grew frustrated, Katie had me close my eyes...
...baby now named Tessa Leavitt was born in a motel bathtub on the night of June 18, 2005. Her mother cleaned her, breast-fed her and cut the umbilical cord herself. The next day, the young Hispanic woman swaddled the infant in a white towel and took her to Fire Station 15 in Whittier, Calif., where she rang the doorbell and told the firefighters, "I want to give up my baby." When the paramedics arrived 30 minutes later, she put the child on their gurney and left. "It was eerie," recalls firefighter Kevin Cull. "The ambulance went...
NICE OF POTUS TO NOTICE President Bush interrupts his Rose Garden press conference to bestow an unexpected compliment, telling NBC's David Gregory (who recently tussled with a microphone cord), "I must say, having gone through those gyrations, you're looking beautiful today, Dave." Oh, Mr. President, you big flirt...
...home that he's one of the boys; his penchant for broad one-liners and his reflexive "heh-heh-hehing" has earned him the nickname "Shecky-in-Chief" from some. Today, there was prop comedy from NBC's David Gregory, who had to extricate himself from his microphone cord only to be teased, "I must say, having gone through those gyrations, you're looking beautiful today, Dave." After a slightly rocky start, Bush even felt bold enough to mockingly chastise one journalist's query about "the eavesdropping program." "We call it the 'terrorist surveillance program,'" he interjected, eyebrows wriggling. Then...