Word: thigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Behr, who caught him in a blanket. When his shoes were cut away from his swollen and blistered feet it was found that the nails of his big toes had been torn loose from the cuticle. The soles of his feet were bleeding horribly. On the rubbing table his thigh and calf muscles contracted and knotted like wires that have been sustaining a tension and suddenly cut. It seemed as if he would never get back his breath. When he did he said, "What I want to do is get to Amsterdam and win the Olympic Marathon...
Feeling that the American arguments had been lacking in substance, Andrew Haddon of Edinburgh University gave vent to the boast that he would "smite them hip and thigh, and scatter the bones of their arguments to the four winds." The whole contention of the English speakers was that pacifism was a good peace time doctrine, but did not reach the fundamental causes...
Muttering hoarsely, the gun-woman scurried around the bench and let four more shots fly at the terrified old jurist. A bullet in the right hip knocked him down a second time. A bullet in the left thigh knocked him down a third time. A bullet grazed his knee just before bailiffs over-powered his would-be murderess...
...Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) saw a bony protuberance exposed by a landslide on the shale cliffs of Los Angeles Harbor last spring. They picked and pried it loose, a bone five feet long, weighing 55 pounds, encrusted with marine fossils. What was it? wondered gaping natives. The femur (thigh bone), said Pomona professors, of a giant elephant that roamed California 20,000 years ago when the rim of the Pacific lay much higher inland...
...Ignacio, Calif., no honest dog stood by to shield Irene Malla, 18, when she went into the fields to milk her cows. Proceeding, she disturbed the ruminations of a bull, could not elude him. The beast caught her on his horns, gashed her thigh, threw her over a fence...