Word: forearming
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...younger brother, with a forearm like a mutton chop, who was the greatest slugger of all. Beek was shorter and chunkier than Lawrence. Cowles persuaded him to keep hitting harder and harder until his services were so fast that opponents were sometimes hit by the rebounding ball before they could move. Sweeping the American and Canadian Intercollegiates, Beekman added the National Singles...
...defensive lineman can't beat a blocker with finesse, there is always brutality. A favorite trick is the "vacuum pop"-clapping his hands over the earholes of an offensive player's helmet. Another is the karate chop, delivered with a beefy forearm encased in layers of tape. "You try not to let it get too personal," says Defensive End Sam Williams of the Atlanta Falcons. "But what the up-front struggle really amounts to is an angry, private little war between two people...
...back at the line of scrimmage one of the game's roughest individual duels had finally exploded. Harvard defensive tackle Joe DeBettencourt, no soft cookie himself, had hit Big Red tackle Tom Dichl with a solid charge, and the 250 Pound Hotel Administration major responded with a forearm shot to DeBettencourt's head. DeBettencourt, the Harvard senior, with unusual politeness, turned the other cheek--and an accusing finger--toward Diehl, and saw the referee drop the reg flag that killed Cornell's last chance for victory...
...stolen license plates, 35 miles north of San Francisco. In the car were $2,657 in cash evidently stolen from the prosperous peddler, and the driver, a daredevil motorcycle racer named Eric Dahlstrom, 23. Beside him on the seat was a grisly piece of evidence: Carter's right forearm, neatly sutured at the severed end and wrapped in a blue suede...
...severed the forearm? Said Dahlstrom: "The hand is a man's history." Then he had an astrological reflection: "I'm a Cancer. I'm not a hard person normally...