Word: wrists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police, he loaded a handgun and went outside. Rowan says he came face to face with a "tall man who was smoking something that I was absolutely sure was marijuana." After the man ignored warnings and lunged toward him, says Rowan, he fired once, wounding the intruder in the wrist. Police identified the trespasser as Ben N. Smith, 18, who, along with at least three others, had apparently scaled Rowan's 8-ft. fence for a dip in the swimming pool...
...child was not critically injured--he was treated and released from a hospital the same day for a broken wrist, fractured skull, and head and facial injuries--and the University paid for all medical expenses. But the accident left Carpenter staff angry and spurred the University to reexamine its campus safety procedures...
...dearly for a Perrier at Cannes's Hotel Majestic bar, then more dearly still if you don't carry your wallet in a chastity belt. A plague of burglaries and purse snatchings stoked delicious horror stories. Did you hear? Patricia Hearst almost had her Rolex swiped right off her wrist...
...hellfire and ice," Magdalena is chafed back to life by the indelicate and unnatural ministrations of John the Brawn, who pulled her out of the river. Then a hanged white man is discovered in a mausoleum on the mansion grounds, with a living black man shackled to his wrist. Next, a corpse buried some 70 years earlier is disinterred from this scene of fresh violence and removed to the house, where it promptly explodes...
...small children suddenly showed itself for it was--a dangerous safety hazard in gross violation of existing building codes. The nearly three-foot gaps in the railing left plenty of room for a three-year-old to tumble about 12 feet to a concrete floor; he was treated for wrist and head wounds and was released the same day. The most appalling part of the accident was that it could have been prevented--and if it weren't for Harvard's bureaucracy, it would have been...