Word: forearmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Water from the Faucet. Two afternoons each week, a Boston lawyer leaves his office early and goes home to bed. His rolled-up left sleeve discloses two plastic tubes permanently implanted in his forearm, one set in a vein, the other in an artery. Their outside ends are connected so that blood flows freely through them. A physician from Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital takes the lawyer's blood pressure. In his bedroom, near the bathroom, is a waist-high tank of stainless steel equipped with an electric motor and pump, an array of tubes...
...their problems with one another. As a result, most have found the emotional strength to face up to their children's problems. "We call her hand 'the-hooker,' " explains the young mother of a pert five-year-old girl who was born without a left forearm, "because that is what the kids will call it, and she'll be used to it by then...
...German police have been known to halt a car and order the driver to take aboard a wholesome-looking stoppeur. Neatness counts, since it denotes respectability; so does a pair of knobby knees (male), because Germans like outdoorsiness. The thumb is a U.S. import; native custom dictates an erect forearm and a vigorous loose-wristed wag of the hand. One student last summer became king of the Autobahnen by carrying a sign that said: I KNOW A THOUSAND JOKES...
...minutes after death, Donor Luna's right forearm was removed, flushed with a clot-preventing solution, packed in ice and rushed to the clinic. There a team of surgeons worked all night with Gilbert; after ten hours Sailor Luna had a new hand...
...keyboard or a finely tuned set of 88 drums. The array of sounds he divines from his Baldwin grand are beyond the reach of academic pianists; he caresses a note with the tremble of a bejeweled finger, then stomps it into its grave with a crash of elbow and forearm aimed with astonishing accuracy at a chromatic tone cluster an octave long...