Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also coming to the aid of atherosclerosis victims. Surgeons in many cities can now cut out a diseased, bottleneck section of the aorta and use a graft from a frozen artery bank as a splint while the patient's own aorta heals. For similar roadblocks in the femoral (thigh) arteries, the surgeon may slit the artery lengthwise, scrape off the diseased deposits, and sew it up again...
Prospects are darkened in the triangular event by the absence of five top men. Art Wills and Dick Wharton will possibly be out with colds, Phil Williams with a cold and sore calf, Jim Cairns with a thigh injury, and Dave McLean with a strained foot. Coach McCurdy is pinning his hopes on Captain Don French, Pete Reider, Dave Norris, Ralph Perry, and Ken Wilson...
...spotted Carpenter snoozing through the gunfire-crackling climax of a western thriller. Policeman Kerr fired five times in the darkness, but fell to the floor, critically wounded, as Carpenter dashed behind the screen and out a fire exit, trailing a spoor of blood from a slug in his right thigh. For the next 23 hours, 500 enraged detectives and 60 squads of patrolmen roamed the area, intent on getting Cop-Killer Carpenter. A helicopter watched the rooftops. Scores of radio and TV broadcasts told Chicagoans that one of the city's greatest manhunts...
...become "Colonel Berger," in command of 1.500 men in the southwest of France. He was riding in a car with several rescued British parachutists when he fell into a German ambush; to let the British escape, he ran across a field to draw German fire, was shot in the thigh, ran on until other shots brought him down...
...Using piano wire bought from a model-airplane shop, two U.C.L.A. surgeons have developed an operation for opening thigh arteries clogged by cholesterol in a common form of arteriosclerosis. A wire loop passed through a length of the artery strips out the inner wall with its fatty deposits...