Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...senatorial colleague shrugged off Taft's almost daily shots from the hip by remarking: "Oh, well, he's running for President." Other Republican Senators were not so complacent; their complaints that Taft was misrepresenting his party grew louder & louder...
Bleeding but upright, Vail turned from the phone, pulling his Colt from its hip holster; he pumped six shots at the manacled prisoners. Deliberately, he reloaded and pumped six more. When the smoke cleared away, both men were dead...
...Beeville's Thomas Memorial Hospital, hothouse blooms banked all about his big room, Vail Ennis lay gravely wounded, his intestines riddled, a hip and arm ripped by bullets. But he was still alive...
...Richard Cresson Harlow was playing on the line for the University of Pennsylvania, and wearing handles on his hip pads so that his teammates could toss him and the ball over the scrimmage line for a first down, President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in to prohibit this maneuver as a menace to the young manhood of the nation. Since this palcolithic period of football, Coach Harlow has seen and brought about constant progress in the game. The forward pass without the added weight of a player was the greatest historical source of speed. Wit rather than weight has steadily become...
...obsession in Venezuela. More than 1,500,000 bolivars ($450,000) are wagered every week. To play five-and-six, the hopeful buy forms at four bolivars each, fill in the names of the six horses they select to win in the six races held every Saturday at the Hipôdromo, and wait for the miracle to strike. If the six horses win, the successful picker may get or share with other winners as much as 400,000 bolivars; if five win, he gets a smaller amount...