Word: corded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been engaged in combat for about 20 minutes when a rocket-propelled grenade hit the helicopter and literally took off its tail. The crash was extremely violent; I think I have compressed my spinal cord. After the crash, a crew member took me out of the helicopter . . . then ((the Somalis)) came in masses. They beat me violently with their fists and with sticks. They tore off all my clothes." Naked, blindfolded, his hands bound, Durant was carried triumphantly above the heads of raging crowds, and "I was still being hit but less brutally. I understood then that someone had decided...
...Johnny Cage kills his victims with a bloody, decapitating uppercut. Rayden favors electrocution. Kano will punch through his opponent's chest and rip out a still-beating heart. Sub-Zero likes to tear his foe's head off and hold it up in victory, spinal cord twitching as it dangles from the neck...
...Doctors have devised an in utero operation for treating myelomeningocele, a birth defect in which the spinal cord protrudes from the spine, leading to paralysis and incontinence. The operation, which uses a skin graft to patch the spine, has been tested successfully in sheep...
...Moines area's 250,000 residents supplied with drinking water; it & will take a month to disinfect the system. Tetanus is another concern, especially for sandbaggers and rescuers slogging through the slimy silt and sewage-invested waters. And then there is encephalitis, a viral disease that inflames the spinal cord and brain and can produce a combination of low-grade fever, seizures and even coma. It is transmitted by mosquitoes, whose numbers are expected to explode along the saturated bottomlands in the coming weeks...
...pleas to the court for custody of her son, Amanda said, "I want to give him love, affection, something I didn't have." In February the court agreed to return Joseph to her: two months later, Amanda was charged with murdering her son by hanging him with an electrical cord...