Word: thigh
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...farmer, who alerted police. As several officers approached the car at around 6 p.m., one of their police dogs sensed something up in the hills, and the dog's handler yelled, "Ambush! Hit the dirt!" Just then Drega began firing, wounding a New Hampshire state trooper in the thigh. The area was so isolated and wooded that the officers could not radio for help right away. Before backup could arrive, Drega shot a Border Patrol agent and a Vermont state trooper. Finally, at about 6:50, during a fire fight with more than 20 police officers, Drega was killed...
...paint to access and encompass the body of the world. To call it abstract, even when it was most so, is to ignore this. In what was probably his finest painting, Excavation, 1950, one sees desire at full stretch: every form carries its physical freight--elbow, groin, folded belly, thigh, slipping and jostling in the paint as though mud wrestling in pigment. De Kooning could find metaphors of energy that none of his contemporaries could rival. And when he carried his "impurity" beyond the decorum of abstraction, as in the great women of the early to mid-'50s, he produced...
...there were little fascinations: such as learning that there was a Secret Service agent who placed his hands firmly on the presidential hips and steered the Chief Executive from behind as the President went hand shaking down a rope line, the agent occasionally swatting the President on the right thigh as a jockey would a racehorse. ("It's code," another agent said cryptically when I asked...
...Clinton plunged in ecstatically--a nightmare for the Secret Service, whose taut, grim faces and darkly frisking eyes contrasted almost hilariously with the happy, dazzled faces of the faithful. Clinton's long, curiously angled fingers (like those of E.T.) reached yearningly, heliotropically, blindly into crowds (swat! swat! on the thigh), from which he emerged flushed and dazed and looking 10 years old. Assembling trivia, one noticed that Clinton, a big man, wears enormous suits that produce a kind of doofus-Armani effect, a huge unvented, shoulder-padded Frankenstein jacket and flopping trousers that gather at the ankles. Clinton's head...
...your younger sister hits campus, she will expect you to know the ins and outs of this institution. Because you have been here longer, so the spurious argument goes, you will be able to give her the inside scoop on Harvard with the confidence of Suzanne Sommers pitching a Thigh Master...