Word: hurtful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...broken collarbones, two broken arms, two broken legs and two broken ankles. Both knees have been sprung so that he has to tape them before riding; one thigh muscle has been pulled so often that it has to be strapped down. "Shucks," says Shoulders, "I've never been hurt seriously. Lots of the boys who've been traipsin' around this suicide circuit have to tie their legs on before they ride. It's not the years," he says sorrowfully, "it's the mileage...
...Shoulders argues, is the roughest racket in sport. But it is not the physical danger that concerns him. "There is absolutely no money guarantee," he complains. "You've even got to furnish your own equipment, and you have to pay entry fees to compete. If you're hurt, you have to sort of scuffle around for yourself...
...Alphonse went to work with a street fighter's will. He put his head down, leaned on his opponent and swung. He had weighed in at 117¼ Ibs., but he worked like a heavyweight, swung looping haymakers, careless of where they landed, confident that they hurt. Macias (118 Ibs.) had little chance to use his shifty speed. When he had his man worn down, Alphonse stepped back and began to box. Even the pro-Macias Mexicans in the crowd of 20,000 fell into silent acquiescence when the officials gave Halimi the decision that made him bantamweight champion...
Shelvey's mother was less conciliatory. "Larry never hurt anyone," she said. "He was so small and frail. And he wanted to go to Princeton. Why did they do it? Just tell me that. Why did they...
With three of its characters evoking Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, the play has also the three-pronged subject matter of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. An elderly, genteelly despotic Southern mother has badly hurt her daughter and her son-the daughter is an all-tied-up-in-knots old maid; the son a psychotically bitter, frustrated writer. The son has in turn badly hurt the simple girl (Anne Baxter) who twice, from sheer sexual compulsion, became his unhappy wife. Divorced now, he comes from a mental home to break in upon her romance with an uncomplicated architect...