Word: groin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could argue on the basis of "What if" until the next Yale game: what if Jim Joslin hadn't been decommissioned in the third quarter with a groin injury; what if Dean Loucks' touchdown pass to Vern Loucks had been deflected just a little bit more...
...When Presidential Secretary Steve Early kneed a New York Negro policeman in the groin a week before the 1940 elections, Ickes was set to work re-wooing the Negro vote. Harry Hopkins, said Ickes, called and "wanted me to get hold of Marian Anderson to have her attend a meeting and sing or issue a statement." Marian sang...
...burns, cracked skull, two compressed vertebrae and one vertebra cracked clear through. These were added to scars that cover perhaps half his body surface, including half a dozen head wounds, 237 shrapnel scars in one leg, a shot-off kneecap, wounds in both feet, both arms, both hands and groin, all acquired in the two World Wars. By last week he was much improved, but his back was still bothering him. When he sat, he lined his chair with big flat picture books and a backboard. "I have to take so many pills," he said, "they have to fight among...
...little help hanging onto their molars; their big helmets often have plastic faceguards to give them some measure of protection. Still, the scars of battle are inevitable. When the Forty-Niners' Fullback Hardy Brown was carried out of his first game with the Lions this year, his groin ripped open by a set of slashing cleats, a reporter in the press box had the last word: "Pro football is getting like atomic war. There are no winners, only survivors...
...dancing instructor. The elder Macfadden's version: "He came into my office with blood in his eye, and . . . before I knew what was happening, he slapped my face and hit me." Berwyn's story: "He tried to shoot me. He kicked me in the groin. In trying to restrain him, I accidentally poked him in the eye." Of one thing there was no doubt: Octogenarian Macfadden sported a fancy purple shiner...