Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brutal crime. The murderer seized the ten-year-old child by the legs, and smashed its head against a stone pillar. The skull was shattered, the right eye was knocked out and there was a deep cut across the lower lip. Both legs were broken at the thigh and the left knee was dislocated. Then the murderer set out to prove that the crime was all an unfortunate accident...
...legs." Later, Adams was introduced to a local version of the striptease called the pai-pai: "In the pai-pai, the women let their lava-lavas . . . or siapas seem about to fall. The dancer pretends to tighten it, but only opens it so as to show a little more thigh, and fastens it again so low as to show a little more hip. Always turning about and moving with the chorus, she repeats this process . . . showing more legs and hips every time, until the siapa barely hangs on her, and would fall except that she holds it. At last...
...Harvard undergraduates, to the sons of old Nassau Princeton means perhaps more than anything else a jumble of queer and extraneous traditions. Bell clappers, cannon, haircuts, and "dinks" all are words whose significance makes the nostalgic Tiger grad's heart warm, and causes him to chuckle and slap his thigh at the thought of his gay college years...
...business has been smitten by hip and thigh. A pretty girl with a title is now considered a surefire method of advertising-even though her picture rarely appears...
...sixth of a series of injuries struck the House football program yesterday as Jack Brophy, star passer of Dunster's eleven, was taken to Still man Infirmary with a badly strained thigh muscle...