Word: forearmed
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...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...
...Connery was born in Edinburgh, where his father was a truck driver. He quit school at 15, joined the Royal Navy at 16, and was medically discharged at 19 for stomach ulcers. He bears two souvenirs of his Navy career tattooed on his forearm: "MUM AND DAD" and "SCOTLAND FOREVER." He worked at odd jobs like coffin polishing. Then a friend told him that a dancer was needed for the chorus of the London production of South Pacific. Connery took a fast 48 hours of private dancing lessons...