Word: coccyx
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...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...
...bare the back any more," says Seventh Avenue Designer Chester Weinberg, "I may be jailed." He exaggerates but little: the backs of some of his latest dresses are cut away right down to the coccyx. Weinberg's flirtation with the lower limits of modesty only makes him one of the crowd. Rarely have so many designers been so intent on uncovering so much; and as a result, fashions this summer will be the breeziest and barest in memory...
...into a retaining wall at 60 m.p.h. "I've never seen any girl take a worse fall," said French Ski Coach Honoré Bonnet. "I didn't expect her to get up again." Nancy got up all right-with a badly bruised right elbow and a broken coccyx. Three days later, her right arm shot full of Novocain, ski pole taped to her glove, she raced in the giant slalom and finished fourth...
...thing about spirals. Everything from bikinis to ball gowns swirled their way up and down the figure. The bias that really biased the crowd was a black, silk, matelasse evening dress-the high halter neck in front dropped to a dangerous curve at a point slightly northwest of the coccyx. Lest any man not notice-which seems hardly likely-there is a big shiny bauble planted at the perigee...