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Word: forearms (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hashish to morphine-laced pills. In Poland, groups of addicts travel to the outskirts of Warsaw to buy sacks of poppy stalks from farmers, which they use to concoct homemade heroin. And in the Soviet Union, a young man rolls up his sleeve to show television viewers an inner forearm riddled with needle marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eastern Europe Shooting Up Under a Red Star | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW FACES IN THE SENATE | 11/17/1986 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Determined Mounds-keeper | 6/5/1986 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: My Military Valentine | 2/14/1986 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Daniel P. Oran, | Title: False Psychiatry | 11/16/1985 | See Source »

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