Word: groining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keeps howling for his price. Finally a tall old man with white hair waves his hand toward his face, palm inward. Harry nods his head and the roar stops. Then Harry turns to the red-faced one. who looked as though he was about to kick Harry in the groin ten seconds ago. Harry says calmly: 'Haven't had time to play. Too cold. I been reading on how to correct that slice.' The red face nods sympathetically...
Apparently, said one correspondent, the Russians' first experience with large-scale, uncensored coverage of Russia by the Allied press "affected the Government hierarchy just about as pleasurably as a swift kick in the groin. "And though the people who irritated them most have departed, I'm sure they still hurt all over, and this soreness isn't helped any by the generally fruitless atmosphere in which the conference closed. As a result, the correspondents who stayed behind in Moscow probably face an indeterminate period of aggravated suspicion, noncooperation and stupidly rigorous censorship -a tougher censorship than before...
...crude wooden hut 20 miles from Paris, agents of the Paris police studied a fantastic corpse. It was the bloated body of a white man, but it had turned a ghastly, gleaming black. On each side of the torso, from rib to groin, the flesh had apparently been burned by a powerful chemical...
...long run, the brittle Black Hawks didn't have as much chance for survival as the fourth-place Boston Bruins. But the Bruins had their own invalid problems with hotheaded Milt Schmidt (groin injury) and shrewd Bill Cowley (broken hand...
...they might have guessed that night, success hadn't changed Bummy any: he still got into trouble. A few months later he was arrested for beating up a Brooklyn clothing salesman. At Madison Square Garden, in 1940, he fouled Fritzie Zivic, no Galahad himself, with ten groin punches in one round, wound up by kicking the referee, all but started a riot...