Word: kneecaps
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...lonely road, another car crowded him to a stop. Two masked men got out, reached in from both sides, and beat McCabe with spiked lead pipes. Two hours later a motorist found him unconscious in a ditch. He had a broken arm, broken legs, a fractured kneecap, deep gashes all over his body...
...borrow him in times of crisis - such as last week's SOS from the Paris printer of one of our overseas editions for a plane-sped package of extender (ink dryer). He has even been useful in getting people to work. Recently, one of our researchers injured a kneecap and another, who had just recovered from a broken leg, offered to lend the invalid her idle crutches to come to the office on. Scorning a taxicab, Dailey strapped the crutches on either side of his motorcycle and admired the way people gaped at him in the streets. He would...
Beau Jack did a little tap dance to convince the two doctors from the New York State Athletic Commission that his kneecap-broken only three months ago-was mended. They were convinced-too easily. Everybody wanted Beau Jack to fight. The ex-shoeshine boy had pulled more cash customers ($1,400,000 in gate receipts) into Madison Square Garden in 18 main events than any other boxer. In the fourth round last week against Tony Janiro, Beau tried to duck a left hook, and his kneecap cracked again, in five places...
...most battered officer in the Navy-he had long ago busted his left ankle and split his kneecap playing football, and he had a sort of double elbow on his left arm from an old injury (a fellow pilot dove a seaplane at him and hit the arm with a wingtip float). On the Ti they used to say of Dixie: "He's got so much metal in him the ship's compass follows him when he walks across the deck...
...taking 20 times the normal dose when he surrendered eight weeks ago). Meanwhile, U.S. interrogators learned from one of Hitler's office helpers that the Führer took 5 cc.s of morphine daily, † Numerous body scars, a foot scar and an aluminum kneecap from World War I; a forehead scar from the time a bathroom skylight fell on him. He shaved off his beard last year without injury...