Word: groining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more and more swollen until the skin was tightly stretched and assumed a peculiar bluish transparency. . . . Fissures appeared [which] were readily infected. . . . Farther up the leg, the edema distends the skin; and over the lower leg especially, this has often a high glaze. The whole limb up to the groin was often [swollen]. The external genitalia were early affected by the edema...
...devilish, fiendish devices of war, things that we don't dare use. Poisoned mines, ones that bounce up and spread death for 25 yards; steel darts, that will go right through you; castorators, a nice little gadget that when you step on it blows your groin...
...Coggeshall, meeting stiff competition in the two mile race, may take a fourth or fifth, while Tom Holyoke, whose leg is taped from knee to groin, may find the going difficult in the broad jump...
Boys are taught how to creep and crawl, break arms, kill with bayonets and knives, gouge eyes, knee the enemy in the groin. They are warned at the start to expect bloody noses and black eyes - especially when teams tear into each other with no holds barred. They take their lessons in dirty fighting seriously...
...shot Ben in the stomach, in the ribs and in the groin...