Word: ribbed
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After a strenuous love scene with sultry Cinemactress Linda Darnell, hefty Paul Douglas, 43, who had some rib cartilages pulled loose in a cinema football scene a fortnight ago, went to the doctor to have his ribs taped up again...
...junior varsity has lost one of its top linemen in light, fast center Bill Monteith, who suffered a severe hip bruise in Wednesday's practice. Injured in the same scrimmage were dependable halfback John Ingraham, who broke a rib, and big fullback Bob Kendall, who bruised a leg. Kendall is expected to start, however...
...months, President Truman had been unsuccessfully trying to land a man of stature as chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. All the time, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon kept nudging the presidential ribs and pointing admiringly at McMahon's friend and former law partner, Gordon Dean. Last week Mr. Truman gave in to McMahon's rib-poking. The White House announced that friendly, freckled Gordon Dean, a member of AEC since May 1949, would be the new $17,500-a-year chief of the nation's billion-dollar atomic energy program...
...Brenda Carol and Beverley Lynn Townsend were born last November in the little hospital in the town of Tofield (pop. 800), Alberta, after a difficult, 2½-hour delivery. Dr. William Freebury had little hope for their survival when he saw that they were solidly joined (from the third rib to the navel), facing each other. A minister was called to baptize them when they were only ten minutes old. Their combined weight was 9¾ pounds...
...rays showed them to be "mirror twins," one having the heart inclining to the right, the other to the left. Other organs were similarly transposed. Their breastbones were fused. The twins shared some rib cartilage and other tissues. So far as the surgeons could tell in advance, their biggest problem was going to be separating the large liver which the twins shared...