Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time, it looked like a fine game to six-year-old Mike Rector and his two playmates. Whooping it up as cowboys & Indians, the playmates tied Mike up in a nearby garage, bound his feet and set fire to him. By the time his mother had smothered the flames, 70% of Mike's sturdy little body was deeply scarred. At Washington's Casualty Hospital, Chief Surgeon Joseph Rogers Young took one look and told Mrs. Rector that her son probably could not live until morning...
...that was last November and Mike is still alive. He is one of the few victims of such extensive burns ever to pull through. Still in the hospital, he is now a thin, slight figure wrapped from neck to feet in bandages. His frail legs are bound to stiff splints to keep them from twisting. Pulling Mike through has been a long and complicated job. To prevent the formation of blisters and the deadly "white hemorrhage" (loss of body fluids and proteins through the raw, granulating flesh), Dr. Young covered Mike's burns with vaseline gauze, swathed...
...Stockbroker Pedley, who lays aside his spectacles when he dons his polo togs, had long ago given up whoopdedo polo. But when things looked darkest, Pedley dribbled the ball almost beneath his pony's feet and drove it squarely between the uprights for two successive goals, to turn the tide. With less than one minute to play, the U.S. scored the clincher that beat the Argentines, 10-9. But the Argentine protest was allowed; the game didn't count...
...cockpit was barely big enough for him. Behind him, cramming most of the fuselage, were thick-walled tanks of "lox" (liquid oxygen) and alcohol. Tucked away in odd places, even under his feet, were heavy flasks of nitrogen gas compressed to 4,500 Ibs. a square inch. The windshield (of glass, rather than plastic, so it would not melt from air friction) was too small to give much visibility. From all sides, and above and below, a bristle of controls, dials and warning lights pressed on the pilot's seat...
Sweeps in the hammer and shot, and a first and second in the discus racked up 26 points for the Crimson early in the afternoon. Big Jeff Tootell put the shot 50 feet, 6 inches for a win in that department, and then went on to place first in the discus with a heave of 146 feet, 9 1/2 inches...