Word: scarred
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...would be laid up for two months, McCarthy retired to the north woods to sit out the campaign. But last week Joe was campaigning for his political life. He received reporters in Milwaukee's Hotel Schroeder, where he walked around in his shorts, showing the 2-ft.-long scar of his operation. Pouring warm Martinis from a bottle on his dresser, Joe announced: "It's going to be an awful rough fight...
Middleweight Sugar Ray Robinson hired a prominent plastic surgeon to remove scar tissue from his brow and pretty up his nose. Manhattan sportwriters concluded that he was getting ready to retire from the ring...
...welders sealed the joints. The outer covering was finally tested with the pipeliners' "conscience": a machine that uses a 10,000-volt electrical charge, and registers a short circuit at any spot where the covering is too thin. Then bulldozers filled in the trench, leaving only a great scar winding across the forest and the mountains...
...eight years old. When the authorities at Austria's Wagna refugee camp tried to question him, he could only stare at them with round, uncomprehending eyes. At last his data was entered in the records: "Name-unknown; parents-unknown; place of birth-unknown; height-141 centimeters. Identifying features: scar on chin; scar on belly. Deaf and dumb...
...notion that a cross-eyed child "will grow out of it" is a "vicious bit of misinformation," declared Ophthalmologist Richard G. Scobee of St. Louis. Besides creating difficulties in learning, the child's handicap sets him apart from playmates and often leaves a deep emotional scar. Dr. Scobee's advice: have it treated promptly, even if surgery is needed...