Word: forearmed
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...Russian model that Yesalis saw, a hard leather cylinder attaches the artificial hand and forearm to the patient's upper arm. The plastic strap secured to the stump below the elbow contains two electrodes, each attached to two wires that proceed up the sleeve of coat or dress in a single cable. They lead to a transistorized power pack the size of a cigarette case, which may be worn under a man's shirt or a woman's blouse. Another wire leads back from the power pack, down the arm, to the artificial hand. Inside this hand...
Bone surgeons joined the radius (larger of the two forearm bones) with a narrow metal plate held in place by two screws driven through each end into the bone. The smaller bone was left to rejoin itself. Vascular surgeons joined the major blood vessels, not by stitching, which even the traditionally patient Chinese admit is difficult, but by turning one end up into a cuff over a tiny plastic ring and pulling the other end over the slight bulge...
...throws his block-so I can be past the tackier and on my way before he recovers." Jimmy rarely tries to fake a cut. "You have to fake from an upright position and you don't get power that way." He much prefers to use a clubbing forearm punch to discourage tacklers...
...Baskin, 42, turned to it around 1949: "I was trying to do in sculpture what was essentially graphic, things too complex in terms of their ideas. I started with wood cuts, then turned to etching and discovered new areas of possibility." He sports a "living etching" on his right forearm-a work executed by a Halifax tattooist from a Baskin design of intertwined snakes. Baskin used a 17th century technique for E.P.: It Is Pitiable-a single hand-inked plate provided a two-color etching...
...teams fought a hard game from the opening face-off. At 4:12 of the first period Harvard defenseman Ron Thomson received a two-minute penalty for forearm blocking. St. Nick's quickly moved into the Crimson end of the rink and when goalie Godfrey Wood carelessly left a rebound lying five feet in front of the net Mike Karin was quick to bang in the loose puck. Assists went to Jim Bostwick and Morris Cheston...