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Word: thighed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York: "Afternoons I work in the morgue. Mornings I pupil-teach in preparation for a teaching license. The morning teachers are far deader than the afternoon corpses. Evenings I study, periodically falling asleep over a book with the cross-eyed Siamese cat asleep at my thigh. Tomorrow I will eat three big meals and play my cello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Beat Booksellers | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...somewhat impersonal efficiency-combined with a zest for combat and a habit of slapping his thigh and laughing uproariously at his own jokes-makes it unlikely that he will ever be voted the best-loved churchman of the year. But his ability to handle the workloads of several ordinary men is legendary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Lutheran | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...thigh-slinging Crooner Elvis Presley made his way from Hollywood to the family home near Memphis to wait out his Army summons, Pollster Eugene Gilbert, a specialist in probing teen-age minds (TIME, Aug. 13, 1956), announced-to no one's surprise-that Pelvis fans, rated against the Como-Boone-Sinatra crowd, are all shook up indeed. Researcher Gilbert's findings: in school, most Presleyans don't give a twang for getting good grades. Average grade for the Elvis lover is C; for the Booneite, B or better. Thirty percent of ardent rock 'n' rollers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 24, 1958 | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...fare to the terminal. He never got there, but stayed drunk in a downtown hotel, was soon back at the hospital, coughing blood and fevered (103°), pleading for readmission. He won it. After a few days he went berserk, terrorized the ward, smashed furniture and equipment, gashed his thigh with scissors. After more such self-inflicted wounds, Lamphere was committed to a mental hospital. He escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medical Munchausen | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

...from one of the marble tables." His love of bad puns was notorious ("A good one is not worth listening to"). Said a friend: "I recollect him now, wiping his brow after trying vainly to help the leg of a tough fowl, and saying he was 'heaving a thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Swell | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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