Word: elbows
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...elbow injury is threatening to topple that foundation over...
...captain Bode Ogunwole in his bout with Paul Weibel of Lehigh on Saturday afternoon.“He was about to take [Weibel] down,” senior tri-captain Robbie Preston said. “[Weibel] tried to throw him, and he landed funny and felt his elbow pop. He’s having his arm checked out, and the best-case scenario is having him miss a couple of weeks, but it would really be a disappointment to see him sidelined, especially with this being his last year.”“We don?...
...EXTREME EXAMPLE OF HOW CHANGES IN the input reaching the brain can alter its structure is the silence that falls over the somatosensory cortex after its owner has lost a limb. Soon after a car crash took Victor Quintero's left arm from just above the elbow, he told neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran of the University of California at San Diego that he could still feel the missing arm. Ramachandran decided to investigate. He had Victor sit still with his eyes closed and lightly brushed the teenager's left cheek with a cotton swab...
...bench to its feet.After a sloppy pass that led to a Lindsay Hallion steal and layup, the Big Green faced a three-point deficit and fed the ball to forward Sydney Scott. But Crimson center Emma Moretzsohn stepped in and took the blow of Scott’s swinging elbow, sending play the other way. Hallion promptly nailed a jumper on the other end to up the Crimson’s lead to five with just under a minute left.The entire second half was a highlight reel for Hallion, who just the day before found herself in the hospital with...
...trade in souvenirs, silks and pottery. Its byways are patrolled by importunate motorcycle-taxi drivers, land-mine victims and a juvenile sales force whose arresting patter and command of English brook no discouragement. "Buy a bracelet for your girlfriend," commands a jet-eyed moppet whose head barely reaches my elbow, as she rattles a handful of coconut rings. "I don't have a girlfriend," I reply. "You know why you don't have a girlfriend? It's because you don't buy her a present." The logic is hardly watertight, but her repartee is easily worth a dollar. After dusk...