Word: coccyx
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...linear tension produced by common movements a bit too far, though. In "The Bow," he leaves his subject in such a low-squatting curtsey, her right leg extended stiffly like a dancing cossack, that given one brief moment brought to life, she seems sure to capsize and fracture her coccyx...
...aware of the bloody repression that the Chilean government is practicing [Aug. 18]. I am but one of the thousands of relatives who are engaged in the painful search for a desaparecido [missing person]. The alleged corpse of my brother, Luis Guendelman Wisniak, not only had part of the coccyx bone−which in his case had been removed when he was five years old−but also its twisted denture bore no resemblance. The miraculously uncharred plastic identification card was ripped and sealed with metal staples, the last name was misspelled, the photograph and fingerprint were not that...
...Auritt, playing with a coccyx injury, and Steve Hines were outstanding in establishing firm control of the midfield. At 13:45 of the first half, Auritt hit a cross pass which Tony VanNiel, playing with a foot injury, headed into the right corner of the Princeton goal...
Purcell did not graduate from Harvard (he's an alumnus of Purdue as is astronaut John Glenn, but Glenn's chances of becoming president of Harvard vanished when he fell in the bathtub during the Ohio Senatorial primary and broke his coccyx, making it virtually impossible for him to lead the commencement procession around the Yard without limping). Purcell did get his Ph.D. here. Scientists have fared well in the Harvard presidency. Pusey's predecessor, chemist James B. Conant, served for 20 years before retiring to become high commissioner of occupied Germany...