Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand is like putting on a tight leather glove. His fingers are short, thick, powerful, with the nails trimmed close. Fingertips are black with polish, calloused, and scuffed like rough-cut pine. The skin is cracked splintered, not just on the tips but down the finger to the palm, He is strong, but not with the manicured muscles of the beauty parlor weight room. His barrer-shaped forearms have been built by forty years of intense, detailed work, banding thick leather to his bidding...
...walls). But apart from differences in length and thickness, all these scopes are fundamentally alike: slender fiber-optic tubes that can be inserted deep inside the body through minute (1-cm-long or less) incisions. With the addition of a tiny telescopic lens, a miniature light source and a palm-size video camera, these tubes are transformed into videoscopes that project images of the patient's internal organs and, even more important, of the snippers, staplers and graspers that the surgeons manipulate...
Meantime Jerry Ford was hobbling around his Palm Desert, Calif., digs, awaiting an artificial right knee to match the left knee he had inserted two years ago. Unable to get to his native Michigan to plug Bush for this week's primary, he boomed his message over the phone to several old friends in the media. "Pat Buchanan has had his run," said Ford. "It's time for him to get out of the race so the President can spend more time dealing with a Congress that is in total disarray." If the economy is improving, then Bush will...
...private firms to perform 22 tasks currently being done by the cops -- at an estimated 37% savings in cost. These tasks include transporting prisoners, assisting stranded motorists and guarding crime scenes. Similarly, to save money, armed Wackenhut guards have replaced sheriff's deputies on commuter trains in Miami and Palm Beach...
...most shots, the makers of Wayne's World used a Southern California suburb, a fact which explains the presence of palm-trees in the middle of Illinois...