Word: forearmed
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...more worthy a challenger than Gus Dorazio, Red Burman, Al McCoy or the half-dozen other second-raters who have served as punching bags for the Champ. Patterned on the lines of Primo Camera, Giant Simon, a stand-up boxer (6 ft. 4 in.), had nothing up his forearm but the longest reach (83 in.) and the largest mitts (14½ in.) in the fight game...
...thin, watery fluid secreted in the breasts of gravid women. From them colostrum is extracted, mixed with sterile salt solution and a preservative chemical, stored under refrigeration to await use. To make a Falls test, a small amount of the colostrum preparation is injected into a woman's forearm. If she is not pregnant, a reddish weal will appear. If she is pregnant she will not react. Theory is that pregnant women, secreting colostrum of their own, are immune to injections of it from a foreign source...
...that the song was anti-German. The Minister replied that he liked the song, that Bulgaria was neutral, and that he would comport himself as he pleased. Thereupon the German threw a champagne bottle at the Minister who, in warding it off, got a six-inch bruise in his forearm. The Minister promptly socked the German in the face, knocking him down. It was the Minister's third personal café tangle with the Axis since taking this...
First the doctors flexed the child's right knee, bound her forearm to her leg with adhesive tape and tied her hand over her foot. Then they cut her second toe two-thirds of the way around, so that it opened on a hinge of live tissue. Then they fitted the bones together so that the last joint and a half of the toe capped the second joint of the finger. Finally they peeled the skin off the finger tip and joined it to the cut end of the toe, carefully matching the tendons and stitching them together...
...evacuation of several French villages and had thrown thousands of peasants into panic, and even as Duff Cooper spoke, a creepy story circulated in London about a nun in a railway carriage who stooped to pick up a newspaper and revealed to horrified passengers a man's hairy forearm. With "wide powers" to stop rumormongering, police went to work. A news vendor in Portsmouth was sentenced to three months for shouting "Germans bomb London...