Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earlier attempts to do this, doctors relied on mechanical pumps to boost the blood on its way. At California's medical school, blood pulsing down each man's main thigh artery is shunted into the corresponding artery of the other. The blood from the partner is then led back to the same thigh, lower down, to form a complete circuit...
...beautiful statue come to life, was done in the classic style of Viennese operetta. Its star: blonde Soprano Virginia Haskins, of Manhattan's City Opera. Wearing a Grecian gown slit nearly to the hip, she romped through the score with lyric grace, fine acting and plenty of thigh. Menotti's brassy Amelia, with the Met's Eleanor Steber, kept up the hoyden theme. Soprano Steber's rich, gusty voice was just right for the girl who has made up her mind to go to the dance, though Steber's acting proved to be more...
...soldier with the field dressing over his eyes was shifted from his stretcher to an ambulance for another stage of his painful journey from Korea. A blond youngster with a gaping hole in his right thigh was carried under the spotlight. The chaplain tugged gently at the soldier's sodden combat boots and blood-soaked trousers and joked with him about rotation. "I nearly had my time in, Father," the boy said. "I guess I get out a little early." He shivered and flinched as the artillery fired another salvo...
...been spoiling for a fight ever since they landed in Korea some two months before, and now they were getting one. Said an officer at the brigade C.P.: "My best company commander's got bullet holes all up the side of his trousers and a gash in the thigh. He's as happy as a pig in clover...
...grizzled old Buddhist Wizard of Kalimpong specializes in freeing the struggling spirits of the dying. This he accomplishes by sticking a hollow tube down the dying man's throat to provide a spiritual exit; at the same time the Wizard toots a horn made of a human thigh bone. The Wizard might be thought eccentric elsewhere, but not in Kalimpong (pop. 8,800), a zany Indian town straddling a 4,000-foot ridge in the Himalayan foothills...