Word: pencilling
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...could be classified as a parent's worst nightmare--except that few parents could even imagine such a freakish accident. Bursting with exuberance, the Helena, Mont., boy bounced a football off the wall of his room, dove onto his bed to retrieve it and somehow drove a No. 2 pencil through his chest and right into his heart. "I kind of felt it go in," he says, "but it didn't hurt, so I looked down. Then I started yelling, 'Mom! Mom! Mom, I'm gonna...
...level-headed mom, that's just what would have happened. Many parents would have instinctively tried to pull the wooden stiletto from Nathan's chest. But Lorri Earley, a trained nurse, saw the pencil throbbing rhythmically in her son's chest and knew where it had probably lodged. She knew that pulling it out could unleash a torrent of red that would bleed the boy dry in a matter of minutes. "There was no way we'd touch it," she told TIME...
...Lankan rebel) 27. Superstar who's reuniting with his dad 31. 1996 Olympic torch lighter 32. Subject of a 1773 protest 33. U.N. working-conditions agency 34. Congressman who introduced a bill to ease sanctions on Iraq 37. Bob __ IV, author of a World article panning McCain 39. Blue-pencil 40. Send to the Hill 41. Spoils __ 44. J.D.'s org. 45. Bush, in Doonesbury 46. Many CEOs 48. Web master's creation 52. Project completion? 53. Some choir members 54. Barbra's A Star Is Born co-star 55. Kerrey is leaving the Senate to head the __ School University...
...action by the FAA has been on hold since an Oakland grand jury began investigating similar charges. The inquiry involves several Alaska Airlines employees suspected of "pencil whipping"--falsifying, in the parlance of the industry--documents to indicate that maintenance checks had been done on some MD-80s when they were not. According to sources close to the investigation, the inquiry was widened recently after federal investigators suspected that more planes had not been properly checked. There has been no suggestion that the plane that crashed last week was part of any investigation. But the question remains: Was there some...
...back-to-school makeover usually involves some minor tweaking--crisper jeans, a snazzier 'do or even just a new pencil case. But come next fall, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) may face a reconstruction considerably more drastic...