Word: hipped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last day at Pamplona, working with his second bull, Manolete surpassed himself. It was a big bull, but the old master had it eating out of his hand. He did everything in his repertory, including four magnificent manaletinas, in which the muleta is held close to one hip, then passed over the bull's head and horns when he charges. He stood there with the muleta almost directly behind him, his body between the muleta and the bull, and it is only a slight exaggeration to say that if the bull had stuck its tongue out it could have...
Boots, No Saddle. In Platteville, Colo., while Rodeo Star Verne Elliott was pulling on his high-heeled boots, he fell off his bed, was taken to the hospital with a banged-up hip...
When he got a call one day last week that his 94-year-old mother was gravely ill, Harry Truman hopped into the presidential plane and flew to her home in Grandview, Mo. It was his fifth visit with her since she had broken her hip in a fall last February. This week, as she wavered, he was at her side...
...Lord & Lady Halifax at lunch. At 6:15 a.m. Sunday, he boarded the Sacred Cow for a Mother's Day trip to Grandview, Mo., there to receive some pleasant news to top a pleasant week. After a setback, his 94-year-old mother was recovering satisfactorily from her hip fracture. He returned to Washington the same day, much relieved...
When it came to rehabilitating Stan Musial, the usual rules didn't apply. He is a "hip hitter" who does his best when ignoring the copybook: holding one shoulder lower than the other, hugging the rear of the batter's box, crouching forward with a ready-to-pounce stance, putting a lot of body wiggle behind his swing. Musial himself blamed his slump on too much golf during the winter and spring; he put his golf clubs into the closet. A slim, conscientious player, who at 26 earns about $27,000 a year, Musial spent hours...