Word: gashing
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...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...
...doctors told me I was pretty lucky. The cut is on the right side of my chest and they said it's in the one place where it can't really do too much damage," he added. No one has found the instrument which inflicted the oval half inch gash...