Word: torsoed
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...Kelly's hero, a good-natured Irishman named Michael Briody, is busy riveting together the skeleton of the Empire State Building, which at the peak of construction grew by a floor a day. Kelly devotes some great kinetic prose to his labors: "Briody steadied his legs and back and torso and arms and clenched his jaw against the rattle of the pneumatic gun. His muscles were fluid one second with movement, static the next to drive the rivet home, a contracting and easing of his brawn that over the weeks had become as regular as breathing." Work stops only when...
...still has open wounds in her right hand and elbow, but with the hole in her knee filled with matrix, a collagen product, it now bends almost perfectly. She has lost count of the number of times doctors have harvested skin from her thighs to graft onto her burned torso and arm. She's had five operations on her elbow alone and must wear a full bodysuit--"my black catsuit," she calls it--to prevent further scarring. She had to learn how to walk through her pain after surgeons took the tough skin from the sole of her left foot...
...stubborn problem is that it involves so many of the body's interlocking systems, and lying at the center of it all is the heart. The heart doesn't so much pour blood through the circulatory system as punch it through, forcing six quarts of heavy liquid beyond the torso and out to remote provinces like the feet, hands and head. Unfortunately, the riptides of the circulatory system are not always kind to the vessels that have to carry the load. Every time the heart contracts, blood not only rushes ahead through the vessels but also presses against the walls...
Only GUESS seems to be bucking the trend, with a fall ad campaign that features the antithesis of modesty, Paris Hilton, lounging around in a bikini, clutching a stuffed animal to her bare torso, and removing the pool boy’s shirt with her stilettos, among other things. But wait. Isn’t GUESS a French brand...
...What you’re dealing with is this interesting lobster torso,” Litinsky said with a smile to his teammates and the TV audience...