Word: foreheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last hour of this short film is filled with flashbacks from the first three Rocky incarnations, scenes of the Italian Stallion hauling a sled full of chopped wood up a 90-degree cliff in training, and finally the American boxer stopping hundreds of punishing sounding blows with his forehead and chin and upper cheekbones. Apparently, Rocky thinks that masochistic training strengthens the bones in the human head to the extent that a steamroller running over the prepared cranium will cause only a slight scratch above the left eye. Warning: readers should not attempt this sort of thing at home...
...dancing partner reached up and placed the back of her hand on her forehead. "Is she mopping her brow?" he mused. "Or are the lights hurting her eyes?" Naive fool: the hand upraised and the posture of rehearsed fatigue were simply the latest dance-floor craze...
...Achille Lauro, with 123 passengers and 315 crew aboard, was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen. Once again American passengers were singled out for especially brutal attention. One of them, Leon Klinghoffer, 69, of New York City, a stroke victim confined to a wheelchair, was shot in cold blood through the forehead and his body thrown overboard...
...prosecute the Palestinians, and to reaffirm that the U.S. very much wanted to prosecute them too. When Admiral John Poindexter, the Deputy National Security Adviser, entered the regular 9:30 NSC briefing for the President the next morning, Reagan rose to attention and snapped his right hand to his forehead. Said the Commander in Chief: "I salute the Navy...
...besides, as one recalled, "We had heard gunshots and a splash." Giovanni Migliuolo, the Italian Ambassador to Egypt, later chillingly reconstructed the event: "The hijackers pushed (Klinghoffer) in his chair and dragged him to the side of the ship, where, in cold blood, they fired a shot to the forehead. Then they dumped the body into the sea, together with the wheelchair...