Word: groin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rarely had Hollywood, which knows something about such things, witnessed such a spectacle of eye gouging, groin kicking and neck chopping. To a lavishly mirrored studio on Los Angeles' South La Cienega Boulevard last week came a pack of TV and film stars to watch an exhibition of the latest fad in craze-crazy filmland: karate. A more violent cousin of jujitsu and judo, Japanese-imported karate (pronounced kah-rah-tay) aims at delivering a fatal or merely maiming blow with hand, finger, elbow or foot, adopts the defensive philosophy that an attacker deserves something more memorable than...
Down went this fighter to the rug. He roared out 'Foul!' The house dick burst in upon him to see the splendid athlete holding his groin, moaning like a busted pipe organ, and refusing to come out for another round." To Fowler's generation of writers, New York was always the Big Town, a drink was spiritus frumenti, and Broadway was the Rue Regret. Reading Skyline with or without spiritus frumenti, one question is bound to arise: Where are the monkey glands of yesteryear...
With a few exceptions, the varsity is nearly healthy. Inside Bruce Johnstone, out for almost a month with a groin injury, played in Saturday's Columbia game, but will not make the trip to Dartmouth. Inside Johann Nottebohm has an injured Achilles tendon, and fullback John Jeppson still is suffering from a thigh pull. Left halfback Bill King, a defensive whis whom coach Bruce Munro calls "the backbone of the halfback line," is afflicted with a virus, but should be ready to play...
Munro can hardly afford a leak in his defense, since his offense has been something less than explosive so far. The wing position is especially depleted, with Philip Hime apparently gone for the season. Sam Rodd out with pulled groin and thing muscles, and Chris Martin suffering to a smaller degree from the same ailments...
...floor, or preferably on a large, but firm cushion, and stretch out your legs in front of you. Fold in the left leg and put the left foot so that the heel is pushed well into the fold of the groin . . . Then fold in the right leg, grasp the foot and place its sole uppermost on the folded left leg . . . Sit up straight and then without pausing lean the trunk forwards as far as possible, stretching the arms vigorously behind you, right hand grasping left wrist. . . Breathe deeply in this position for a few seconds, then...