Word: forearming
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...Navy pilot, McCain was shot down over Viet Nam in 1967 and spent the next 5 1/2 years in a prisoner- of-war camp. He came out with two broken arms and a broken leg; he still walks with a slight limp and cannot raise his right forearm above elbow level. His war-hero status helped elect him to two terms in the House and, last week, to Barry Goldwater's seat in the Senate. McCain, 50, easily defeated Democrat Richard Kimball...
Playing with a prosthetic left forearm, Rubin compiled a 31-21 record over her four seasons while copping second team All-Ivy honors four times...
...passports. She refuses, saying, "Don't you know I'm German...I won't do it again!" The director goes on to demonstrate that he is aiming at the lowest common denominator of human intelligence when he shows us a close-up of a Jewish passenger's tatooed forearm--a grim reminder of his days in the concentration camp--as he sheepishly hands his passport over to the unwilling Ingrid...
...complete with fancy name and symptoms. "The best diagnostic formulation," Hunt writes, "is that the individual suffered an adjustment disorder, with situationally related depression, agitation, and a suicidal attempt/gesture at one point and hypomanic excitement later." Hunt explains that the "suicidal attempt/gesture" resulted in a gash on Medved's forearm that the Soviet freighter's doctor said was self-inflicted...
Hunt is either extremely naive or extremely disingenuous. The Soviet doctor told the psychiatrist that Medved had "himself inflicted the laceration on his forearm...[during] a brief psychotic reaction." But in the report, Hunt asserts that Medved was "clearly not psychotic [his italics]"--which would appear to make the Soviet doctor's explanation somewhat hard to believe...