Word: gashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elephant wheeled and bolted. The rhino charged, snorting in the elephant's wake and trying to gore him with her 24-in. horn. Talbot watched from the rumble seat as the rhino drew alongside the elephant and ripped an 18-in. gash in his side. Then the two animals veered apart as if on diverging rails. "I suppose " says Talbot, "that mama went back to her baby and told him: That's how it's done...
...Winthrop House seniors were involved in a fracas with a gang of Boston teenagers outside the Savoy nightclub on Massachusetts Avenue late Thursday night. One undergraduate suffered a two inch gash under his chin, the only injury received during the minute long tussle...
...instead of dropping down dead, he only spitted another brace of gizzards. Three hundred years later, the same Count Fosca "shot myself in the chest and then in the mouth"; 300 years after that, still going strong, he drew a razor across his throat, but "the lips of the gash [drew] together...only a long pink scar remained...
That September, in the Polo Grounds, he tried again. By the tenth round he was tiring fast. Then, for a few wild seconds, stung by an ugly gash over his left eye, he turned once again into the lithe, sure-punching champ. He won by a T.K.O. Afterwards, even Sugar Ray admitted that it might be a good idea to quit while he was ahead...
Bender, who collapsed Oct. 30 with a gash in his chest, again refused to explain exactly how he was injured. "It happened, that's all. There has been no trouble from the University or anyone else about the matter," he said...