Word: elbowings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...catalog of trauma turned out to be a long one. Below the right knee, the tibia and fibula shattered into half a dozen pieces. The right femur broken, the ball joint at the hip damaged. The elbow of the right arm crushed. Several ribs snapped, their sharp ends driven into the lungs. Collarbone and sternum busted. What saved me was the merest fluke: apart from punctured lungs, a few picturesque cuts and some bruising to my liver and heart, the damage was all skeletal, not soft tissue. My brain was intact; ditto my eyes, spine, guts and genitals. It could...
Felled last week by: A sprained A sprained knee TLC, whose single elbow outsold...
...looked like a well-preserved crime scene," says paleontologist Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, who examined the bones with scanning electron microscopy. Slashes across foot, ankle and elbow joints indicate tendons and muscles were deliberately cut. Skulls were smashed to remove the brains, bones were broken for the marrow, and in at least one instance a tongue was cut out. The markings, says White, were what you'd expect "if you were slicing up and down to cut the meat away from a turkey bone...
Quarterback Vin Ferrara took the field--injured elbow and all--completed a 19-yard pass to tight end Andy Laurence and threw a five-yarder to tight end Adam Golla. But on the next play he overthrew tailback Eion Hu, and a Yale defender tipped the ball...
...this basement hovel. Club Passim looks like a tame cafe, but it is an institution. It's where big names like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan got started, and it continues to draw top folk, bluegrass and special acts. Many a night also find the place packed elbow-to-elbow with kids from school (mostly the a cappella crowd) when Harvard's own amazing talents take the stage...