Word: forearmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until recently, acknowledging Viet Nam veterans in such showy fashion would have connoted approval of the nightmarish war. However, "within the soul of each Viet Nam veteran," says Max Cleland, who lost both legs and a forearm in the war and headed the Veterans Administration under Jimmy Carter, "there is probably something that says, 'Bad war, good soldier.' " Their fellow Americans are only now coming to appreciate that distinction and, as Cleland says, "separate the war from the warrior." Mike Mullings of Bethany, Okla., a medic in Viet Nam, agrees that "things are changing. It might sound corny...
...problem first appeared in 1964 when Fleisher noticed a peculiar sensation hi his forearm. By 1965 he found himself incapable of playing at all; he had lost control of his right fingers. During the years that followed he tried almost every known treatment, consulting doctors, hypnotists and psychotherapists. A child prodigy, Fleisher had been pushed hard by his parents. Some part of his psyche, went one theory, was rebelling against the emotional pressure...
There are aspects of the new woman in a rising generation of athletes and actresses: the powerful neck and shoulders of Dancer Sandahl Bergman, the huge forearm of Tennis Champ Martina Navratilova, the mesa-flat stomach of Actress Mariel Hemingway, the sinewy "thunder thighs" of Marathoner Gayle Olinekova, the eloquently articulated back muscles of Track Star Patrice Don nelly. But these are not changeable parts on the latest model of Barbie doll. The new body is to be seen and appreciated in the sum and the movement of its parts, the most important of which may be the brain that...
That would be just fine to many men, and not a few women, with more traditional ideas of female beauty. Insists Beverly Sills, the diva who now runs the New York City Opera: "There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom." Playboy magazine's 1982 Playmate of the Year, Shannon Tweed, is about the same height and weight as Mariel Hemingway, but her contours are different ? in the soft lines and curves that her beau, Publisher...
...took gangland violence by Yale to get the Crimson back into the game. In the midst of a lackluster stretch for both teams. Brooke cruised in on the Harvard net without the puck and blatantly decked goalie Lau with a forearm to the head...