Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...centerfielder of the New York Yankees had the worst charley horse he could remember. He wore a thick bandage over his left thigh (to support the strained muscles) and a second bandage around his middle to hold up the first one. Said Joseph Paul DiMaggio, more in simple fact than in complaint: "I feel like a mummy...
...Oklahoma's rolling wheatlands this spring, all signs pointed to a lean year. Stalks that normally would have been thigh-high were hardly more than stubble; some fields were so thin that farmers plowed them under. Experts forecast that Oklahoma, which harvested an elevator-busting 104 million bushels in 1947, would bring home this year only 74 million bushels...
...jawbreaking phrase, as "heavy nupercaine to produce saddle-block anesthesia." Nupercaine is a cocaine substitute. "Heavy" means that it is loaded with a glucose (sugar) solution to make it heavier than the body's spinal fluid. "Saddle block" aptly describes the area anesthetized (the inner thigh and perineum...
...Kety experimented on 400 patients in three different hospitals. First he inserted a needle in the internal jugular vein (which drains the brain), another in an artery, usually the femoral artery in the thigh. Then he had them breathe a 15% concentration of nitrous oxide, a gas that is easily traced...
Until Harrington found the thigh bone, almost nothing personal was known about Pinto Man. But careful study of the bone showed that the ancient hunter was short (5 ft. 6 in.) and squat...