Word: coccyx
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinemactor Ronald Reagan took a fall, landed hard, busted his coccyx...
...Bulge. While the General stood, it circled his arm; when he sat, it was under him. The burning question was: had hard-riding old Georgie Patton finally gone soft? The explanation: on the night Rundstedt attacked, the General took a fall in his blacked-out headquarters, bruised his coccyx...
...time he was eleven, Floyd was an agent (in Berthoud, Colo.) for Reo, Maxwell, Cadillac. In Floyd's motorcycling prime he broke a world's record for the 100-mile (71 min. 1916), a Pike's Peak record (26 min. 13 sec.; 1926), and his coccyx...
...right is Radio Starlet Florida Edwards, who won an $8,180 judgment against the Hollywood Canteen for an injury to her coccyx, suffered while dancing with a "jive-maddened" Marine. Her plight inspired Los Angeles Superior Judge Henry M. Willis to a judicial definition of "jitterbug." Said he: "The word bug is defined ... as a crazy person. The word jitter means extreme nervousness. This combination, therefore, approaches the description of one witness who said the jitterbug dance was crazy...
...method involves the ticklish business of getting a needle into the caudal canal through a puncture just above the coccyx at the base of the spine. The mis take of getting needle and anesthetic into the spinal canal, a little higher up, or between the wrong layers of tissue, may prove fatal. Milder risks are a broken needle in the caudal canal, or a useless injection under the skin...