Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During one of her routine dives off the coast of Heron Island, Australia, Keasy encountered more than she had reckoned with. As she filmed her underwater subjects, a four-foot, olive-green sea snake wrapped around her ankles, coiled around her torso and slithered over her shoulder...
Like many Harvard students, I have lost a loved one to cancer. My friend died bravely, with her passion for life undimmed. Her lover lent her his shoulder on moonlit "drags" around their hillside farm. He spent sleepless nights in a shared bed, massaging her into brief respites from excruciating pain. They--and all who loved this woman--shared not necrophilia, but its antithesis, a celebration of living that continued until she could live no more...
...feel like the state is treating us maturely," he says. "It's like drinking in high school, drinking while looking over your shoulder...
...prospects for civil order dim, Aideed and the other warlords will reassert themselves, likely causing at least a partial return to preintervention conditions. The terror will return for the Somali people; the horror will return to our TV sets. Then we will have to choose: either turn a cold shoulder, or send back our troops...
...explosion killed four people and wounded at least 15, including al-Alfi, whose arm was broken. From the window of a second-floor office John Aydelott, a member of the university faculty, heard the roar of the bomb, looked down and saw a woman lying in the street. "Her shoulder had been blown away," he recounted, "and her legs were slashed. A man nearby was nothing but a torso...