Word: crotches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night Monday through Saturday, a 7 inch miniature Totem Pole, carved and painted by the Indians of Old Town, Maine, will be hidden or placed somewhere in the open, in plain sight, in the Vicinity of University Buildings. It might be on the steps of a building, in the crotch of a tree in the Yard,... anywhere that many Harvard men pass daily...
...Supreme Court had one of the merriest times in its history, in 1888, during an infringement suit involving men's underwear. Contested device: a reinforcing patch at the crotch to prevent splitting of the seam. Counsel for the alleged infringer waved a pair of red flannels, asked indignantly whether a patent should be permitted to take away the ancient and sacred right of wives to patch their husbands' underwear. He won his case. Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller laughed so hard he nearly fell under the bench...
...armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference, hooked his stubby broomstick fingers behind, squeezed. Bacigalupi wheezed and bellowed while his breath lasted, then the Angel grabbed him with an inside crotch & lift, slammed him to the mat and pinned him for fall No. 1 in just short of six minutes. Fall No. 2 took only 2:12. Twenty minutes later handlers carried Luigi off, done in for at least two weeks...