Word: forearmed
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Helen Hayes, whose playwright husband, Charles MacArthur, slipped in the shower last year and cracked a rib, slipped in the same shower, grabbed at a porcelain grip, broke it, sliced her right forearm ten stitches worth...
...that settled the white man's 1947 championship, the casualties were almost too minor to mention -one cracked lip, one barked shin. Civilization and 300 years had changed the game, but it still could not be called sissy. To avoid broken bones and bruises, modern players wear armor: forearm pads, shoulder pads, heavy-duty gloves, a helmet. And they have made a science of self-defense...
With facts & figures, Professor Moore demonstrated that the technique most good players use is scientifically superior: the pendulum stroke, with forearm swinging vertically from the elbow. Unfortunately for Professor Moore's thesis, Willie uses a sidearm stroke. It was a habit he picked up lying belly-to-billiard-table as a boy of five. Said 59-year-old Willie Hoppe: "It's too complicated for me. I guess this analysis came too late to help my game...
...meeting its production quotas, and then some-nine touchdowns in the first two games-but the Man in the Tower is the kind of guy who always aims to do better. At one end of the field, the tackle coach is instructing eleven tackles in the refinements of "forearm shivers." At the other end, twelve brutish guards are doing "duck walks." Nine T-formation quarterbacks, never far from the centers, are working on a half-dozen different types of pivot-the crossover, reverse, reverse-deep, hop-around, slice and crossfire...
Smell is probably more important than sight as a food-finder. Mosquitoes were attracted by air which had blown past a human being. They could also feel warmth at considerable distance. A human forearm cooled a few degrees did not interest them. If heated slightly it attracted them quickly. Moisture was important too. But on very damp days, a sweaty forearm was not as attractive as on dry days...