Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year and has faced some 20 bulls in small rings, was practicing passes with a small but sharp-horned cow on a ranch near Aguascalientes. Mexico. In the middle of a pass, Pat snapped her cape too quickly. The cow charged and gored her in the right thigh. In the hospital, where doctors treated a ten-inch gash, Pat said: "I can't wait to get out of here and fight bulls again...
...afternoon, Spain's top matador, Luis Miguel Dominguín (TIME, Dec. 22), worked his second with contemptuous skill. Then, as Dominguín casually seated himself on the estribo (the wooden ridge running around the inside of the barrier wall), the bull caught the matador in the thigh, spun him to the ground...
Marriage did not slow down Tompkins' breakneck career. Wife Rosemary is the daughter of a rodeo producer and a topflight performer in her own right. Working in his spine-jarring sport where broken arms & legs are commonplace, Tompkins has only had one real injury: a pulled thigh ligament. The enforced month's layoff ("I knew I wouldn't be at my best") made nervous, gum-chewing Tompkins edgier than ever, kept him out of action just long enough to lose the bull-riding title...
...routine with plenty of 440-yd. sprints. He also copied Zato-pek's high-arm action and Zatopek's method of running part of a race on his heels rather than on the balls of his feet, a technique designed to rest a distance runner's thigh muscles. But despite his progress (a 4:11 mile this season), it took the most persuasive efforts of his track coach to convince Landy that he had a real chance for the record...
...bring along an elderly fellow in civilian attire and introduce him to the officers as 'You remember Sergeant So-and-So. He and I fought together at So-and-So.' Sometimes if you happen to mention the name of a ranker he'll slap his thigh and declare: T knew him before his mother's milk was dry on his lips...