Word: elbows
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...then its star writer Rick Bragg was suspended and quit after claiming an intern's reporting as his own--the media lit up like the switchboard of a gossipy small town. Reporters investigated reporters. The Times newsroom erupted in finger pointing. Journalism professors raised themselves up on their suede elbow patches to tsk-tsk. Newspapers worriedly reviewed their policies. Collectively, we agonized: Will the public ever trust us again...
...budge. By Day 3, he told the rescuers, his water had run out. As Day 5 dawned, Ralston was badly dehydrated and knew he must free himself by any means. So he reached for his pocketknife and began cutting off his arm. He severed it just below the elbow...
Wallace’s throw was low and hit Brunnig, who had crouched to avoid it, square in the elbow. The ball bounced back toward short, Kutler was safe and Brunnig was sprawled on the field in pain...
...Elbow and knee pads...
...company spent that first night camped on the southeastern outskirts of Samawah, an ancient mud-brick city built over an elbow of the Euphrates River. At 3am on Monday, they got the order to move through the town and secure two bridges. The first thing Talraas noticed as dawn broke were the palm trees and lush green fields. "It almost reminded me of an old Vietnam movie," he says. "We came into the desert, but this was very, very green...