Word: shoulder
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Apart from his prostate cancer, Dole's most significant medical concerns stem from his World War II injuries. Shrapnel still lies buried in his right shoulder. His partially paralyzed right arm has atrophied from disuse, although he can maneuver it to grab and pull back on a rowing machine. Aggressive physical therapy after the war allowed him to rescue most of the use of his left arm. But during his three-year convalescence, he developed an infection that required his right kidney to be removed. Sonograms have shown that his left kidney has, as expected, got larger in order...
...hair services include a head, neck, and shoulder shiatsu massage, coffee, tea, wash and blowdry and hot towel treatments...
Yeltsin may be looking over his shoulder from his hospital bed. If he were unable to perform his duties as president, rising political star and number two man Viktor Chernomyrdin would take his place, Kohan notes. "It's interesting that Chernomyrdin's press secretary was the first one to announce that Yeltsin was fine and the prime minister would not be taking over for him. The whole thing has a bit of "the lady doth protest too much" quality...
...young African-American soldier being interviewed just before going into battle in Kuwait. The soldier was asked whether he was afraid. "He said," Powell relates proudly, "'I am not afraid. And the reason I'm not afraid is that I'm with my family.' He looked over his shoulder at the other youngsters in his unit. They were white and black and yellow and every color of the American mosaic. 'That's my family. We take care of one another...
...lawn of the rose garden behind 10 Downing Street and announced to a hastily assembled press conference that enough was enough. He had become weary, he declared, of "a small minority" that was disrupting his Conservative Party and undermining his position. With the bright summer sunshine streaming over his shoulder, Major threw down the gauntlet. Rather than wait until November for a possible challenge to his leadership--and endure months of politically damaging backbiting in between--he was resigning as head of the Tories and calling an immediate leadership election so that he could seek a renewed mandate. The time...