Word: forearms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officer was treated at Cambridge Hospital for three wounds to his forearm, hand and finger and was released last night, Pasquarello said. Cambridge District Attorney Tom Reilly and Police Commissioner Perry L. Anderson Jr. both rushed to the emergency room to visit the wounded officer, police said...
...hands continue to be overworked, symptoms worsen. Tendons, which are like long pulleys directing the movement of the fingers from many places in the hands and arms, can swell up, producing painful tendinitis. Soreness can also result from the inflammation of sheaths surrounding the tendons. Muscles in the forearm that control the movement of fingers may become irritated, a condition called myositis. As tissues become inflamed and swollen, they can press on nearby nerves, causing tingling and weakness in the fingers. Sometimes scar tissue develops in the area. All together these injuries, if not treated, can result in diminished coordination...
When a blood-hungry mosquito lands on a human forearm -- or, more likely, on the eyelid of a cow, the haunch of a squirrel, the wing of a roosting bird or even the back of a caterpillar -- she goes to work with awesome efficiency. Her slender proboscis, consisting of two sharp and sometimes serrated cutting % tools surrounding a pair of tiny tubes, pierces the skin (and, if necessary, the cloth or feathers protecting it) and finds a capillary, bending to slide into the tiny blood vessel. Down one tube comes her saliva, which deadens sensation and blocks coagulation...
WHEN A CRITIC AND FELLOW tippler suggested to Tennessee Williams that he | might be a better playwright if he stayed off the sauce, Williams patted his companion's forearm and with a satisfied smile challenged, "Improve A Streetcar Named Desire." The discussion stopped right there. The years since its debut in 1947 have only intensified the relevance of Streetcar's vision of sexual passion as a force so powerful that the principal characters must all lie to themselves about it. But if Streetcar emphatically belongs back on Broadway, it deserves far better than this starry but mostly wan and torpid...
Says another regular looking at the huge crowd, "It's getting a little full right now. You just say excuse me and when he doesn't move, you throw him one of these." He makes the motion of giving someone a forearm...