Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regularly swerved into the fast lane. At Harvard he roomed with Robert Kennedy's son David, who has had his much publicized drug problems. Other friends, groping for an explanation, speculate that Breindel's chronic physical pain-he had undergone several operations in recent years for wrist and kidney ailments-led him to seek an illicit painkiller. Yet it is hard to understand why he would not stick to prescription relief: both his father and sister are physicians. Still, the friends who say they were unaware of a heroin problem are not alone. The FBI, Pentagon...
BUFFALO--Mike Ramsey whipped a long wrist shot past Boston gaalie Pete Peeters with 2:58 left in the game to lift the Buffalo Sabres to a 4-3 victory over the Bruins last night...
...slab room, dingy as a tenement, yet spattered with paint as cheerfully as a Jackson Pollock canvas. The only ornament is a poster of the slab boys' hero, the rebel without a cause, James Dean. Standing beneath it, a young man studiously paints a watch onto his wrist. He soon makes plain what the audience guesses: in this knockabout environment, even a watch is an unattainable badge of advancement...
...Operina. Like much Western writing since antiquity, this simplified italic is written with a broad-edged pen, yielding a pleasing alternation of thick and thin lines, depending on the angle of the stroke. It is also easy to write because it follows the natural movement of the wrist. The writer need only obey the pen to create an even rhythm and beautiful form...
...only goal in the final 20 was a Scott Fusco wrist shot from the slot right off a faceoff, four seconds into a power play at the 6:30 mark...