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Word: achondroplasm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...physical competition. Sky Lo Lo, Little Brutus, The Jamaican Kid, and a dozen others are arm wrestling champs in their own home districts. Others, less proficient in their sport, have had to humble themselves in the off-season by working on circus side shows, collecting disability insurance (achondroplasm, legally, is a disability), or working in the kind of factories whose owners secretly build oil drilling equipment into prosthetic limbs...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: Some Notes on Big-Time Wrestling | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

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