Word: forearming
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...gave a first-hand account of life in a concentration camp, his family's death, being a dentist in Auschwitz, were he had to extract gold teeth from corpses. "We were no longer people in Auschwitz. We became numbers. [I was] number 141129," he said, pointing to his left forearm where the number was tattooed...
Viewers tuning in to Baghdad TV last September got a ghastly glimpse of the Iraqi government in action. First came a close-up of a severed human hand, then one of a man clutching the bloody stump of his forearm, a black cross branded on his forehead. The newscaster said the man had been punished for stealing a television...
...coaches and fans may never forget some of this season's scariest images: the vacant, confused stare of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman after he collided chin-first with a blitzing Phoenix Cardinal; the sight of Buffalo Bills receiver Don Beebe lying, out cold, on the field, with one forearm pointed stiffly into the air; the awful stillness of New York Giants quarterback Dave Brown after his head was slammed to the turf by a Houston Oilers linebacker. The high toll among quarterbacks (the Cleveland Browns' Vinny Testaverde and two Los Angeles Rams passers also went down with concussions...
...fallen for Sally, but Linda's name is tattooed on your forearm. No problem if you live in Britain, where the overburdened National Health Service will obligingly pay to remove it -- cost $53 -- as often as your shifting affections require. You want to take that package holiday to Mallorca, but you haven't got the cash. In Germany most unionized and salaried workers are given extra "vacation money," usually half their regular monthly pay. Such is the solicitous treatment Europeans have come to expect. But not for much longer...
...second area man, Daniel O'Neil, was bitten on the left forearm during the altercation by an unknown assailant and was also transported to Mt. Auburn Hospital...