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Word: wristing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...well. The ribs interlock, moreover, unlike a fish's, implying they were able to bear fishapod's weight-an unnecessary trait in a fish. It had a neck-most unfishlike. And, most surprising of all, its pectoral fins included bones that look like nothing less than a primitive wrist and fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fish with Fingers? | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...Spiegel, associate chair of the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University, hypnotizes Parkinson's sufferers during the implantation of deep-brain electrodes--a process that requires tremulous patients to remain conscious and calm. He has also coaxed children into imagining that a balloon tied to their wrist will fly them to their favorite places, a hypnotic technique that has lessened anxiety in pediatric patients undergoing bladder catheterizations. In Iowa, Schulz-Stübner hypnotizes patients to reduce pain and anxiety while they receive presurgery nerve blocks, such as epidurals. He finds that the calming effects of hypnosis often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Mind over Medicine | 3/19/2006 | See Source »

...handedly just four-and-a-half minutes into the contest. While on the power play, he received the puck from Zach Miskovic on the right just past the blue line and then deked past a Harvard defender. Once in the center, he had an open lane, and his quick wrist-shot deflected off a post and into the net behind Daigneau.DeVergilio also added another goal to put the Saints up 3-0 at the start of the third period.“We knew coming in that he was a shifty forward and that he could score...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In Opener, Crimson Comes Out Flat | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

...cost us.†The Crimson managed to force extra time when freshman Jenny Brine knocked in an inadvertent feed from senior Jennifer Raimondi with 2:10 remaining in regulation. Brine gathered the puck just inside of the blue line and forced a high wrist shot on Golden Knights keeper Kira Hurley. Hurley let the offering fall to the left side, where Raimondi swiped and pushed the puck to the far post for Brine to body the pass into the net for her team-leading 17th goal of the season. Junior Jennifer Sifers was also credited with an assist...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Game Two: Clarkson Reverses Luck in Crunch-Time | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...summed up in one word: Snipes. That’s the nickname of junior forward Jennifer Sifers, who scored both of Harvard’s goals on the afternoon. After tying the contest at 1 with 1:24 left in the second period, Sifers ended it with a screaming wrist shot into the top left corner of the net at the 4:22 mark of the second overtime. Sifers took a feed from classmate and linemate Liza Solley and streaked across the blue line before uncorking the game-winner that eluded Golden Knights netminder Kira Hurley. "She's a rock...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard, Clarkson Divided By Slimmest of Margins | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

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