Word: forearmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Williams, who does pushups every morning to strengthen his wrists and forearm muscles, DiMag frowns on off-the-field exercise, likes to loll in bed until 10 a.m. or later. He is also fond of his food: "I don't diet. I believe in three square meals a day and I'm not ashamed to say I'm nuts about spaghetti...
...carpet . . . Gonk's Hypothesis, formulated by our own Professor Gonk, of the Cambridge Trichological Institute, states that a subject who has rubbed a wet shaving brush over his face before applying the cream cannot, however long and furiously he shakes the brush, prevent water from dribbling down his forearm and wetting his sleeve once he starts shaving. Gonk has also, of course, carried out some brilliant research on collar-studs, shoelaces, tin-openers, and the Third Programme atmospherics...
...sure that he hadn't pitched his last ball; his arm ached badly. Said Murry Dickson sympathetically: "I had a sore arm in St. Pete back in 1940. The fellows asked me to go bowling, so I went . . . suddenly I felt a pricking pain in my forearm and elbow, but I kept bowling. When I finished the game, the pain was gone. I've never had a sore arm since...
During the war Cecil Lambert bigamously married a WAAF named Terry, had her portrait in full uniform tattooed on his forearm. At war's end a court sent him to jail to atone for the bigamy. Last week the first Mrs. Lambert marched her errant and reunited husband down to Tattooist Charlie Bell to remove the last evidence of his past. In Charlie's shop, Cecil sat patiently while Charlie and his wife discussed the problem of erasing the WAAF...
...heads on either side of him, mowing a path like a man with a scythe in a field. When the policeman reached the woman, she flung herself at his legs, clawing and kicking. Without changing expression, he shifted his stick to his left hand, and with his right forearm dealt her a terrific swipe which sent her skidding across the road to the curb, against which she gashed her head. The cop looked up and said, "La garce!" (that tramp...