Word: forearmed
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...first play from scrimmage, Bright took the ball, handed off to his fullback, then faded back to watch the play unfold. Charging out of the Oklahoma line, burly Tackle Wilbanks Smith ignored the ball carrier and headed, fist cocked, for Halfback Bright. His arm came up and his right forearm crashed against Bright's jaw, a blow that knocked Bright dizzy and stopped play for more than two minutes. Eight plays later, with Bright carrying the ball this time, Smith piled in again. Bright picked himself up off the turf, rubbing his jaw. On the next play, Bright circled...
...bench against the wet canvas wall a towheaded young Ranger, his left forearm swathed in a bloody dressing made from the sleeve of his green fatigue jacket, asked with weary anxiety if anyone had seen any others of his company. Then, through the tent entrance came a 19-year-old boy. His eyes stared unseeing, he had the face of a man of 90. A chaplain gently forced him to sit down, asked his name and his outfit. The boy did not hear...
...Chicago father, home early one afternoon last autumn, opened the door of his son's bedroom and found himself staring at a terrifying tableau. His son, a 15-year-old vocational-school student, was sitting there, one forearm bared, a hypodermic syringe in his hand. Another boy was holding a teaspoon over the flame of a cigarette lighter. Both the syringe and the teaspoon contained heroin...
...eyesight is not the secret of his success. The ability to stand up to a fast, close pitch without flinching comes first, according to Ted, and eyesight is next. The third most important factor, Ted thinks, is "power, and the power is all here, in the wrist and forearm. Timing comes last. If you have the power you'll get the timing naturally...
...long pale green wings, like spreading veils, her head raised heavenwards, her folded arms, crossed upon her breast, are in fact a sort of travesty of a nun in ecstasy." The travesty is complete when the mantis makes her kill: "With the sharpness of a spring, the toothed forearm folds back on the toothed upper arm; and the insect is caught between the blades of the double saw . . . Thereupon, without unloosing the cruel machine, the mantis gnaws her victim by small mouthfuls. Such are the ecstasies, the mystic meditations...