He has a wounded finger tied in a rudimentary bandage.
The following day, he was shocked to discover that he had called a nurse trying to bandage his arm "a bitch" and refused to cooperate with doctors trying to x-ray his arm.
Since then the regulation gloves have got heavier and heavier until today rniddleweights and above, like Gerald McClellan and Nigel Bent, not only wear 10-ounce (283-gram) gloves but are also permitted to have each hand wrapped in up to 18 feet (5.5 metres) of bandage held in place by 9 to 11 feet of zinc-oxide tape.This padding helps the hitter and hurts the hittee.
Actually, since my Auckland childhood, I've been of that mind; jolly red suit aside, Santa's sinister mechanical wink, tight mirthless mouth and beckoning come-hither finger (which has cracked, and bears a large bandage) make him look like an old man children should avoid.
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One victim described the proposals as "a dirty bandage on an infected wound".The committee also suggested another unpalatable step: that bishops should turn any new allegation of child sexual abuse over to the police or to district attorneys for investigation.
A medic would slap on a cotton-gauze bandage while compressing the wound.
Under the "fee-for-service" system every blood test, bandage or X-ray triggers a payment.
But instead of curing the sickness, we blame people who point out that, underneath the smart bandage, there is a festering wound.
The ability of central bankers to bandage over the harm inflicted by bumbling politicians is limited, warns the BIS in its latest annual report.
"I'd just pinch their clitorises to make them scream," she said, "and tightly bandage them up so that they walked as though they were in pain".Female opponents in Sudan and Egypt say they favour education over criminalisation.
