Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having decided that operation was unavoidable, the surgeons prepared for a long, complicated siege. Off came Margie's long, glistening black hair. Her entire torso and part of one thigh, her shaved head and her neck were encased in a monstrous plaster cast known among doctors and nurses as a "turtle." The cast was hinged in the middle. Joining the halves on the left, and spanning the spinal curvature, was a turnbuckle. Every day or two the doctors extended the turnbuckle by a couple of turns. As it was lengthened, it flattened and almost erased the curve. But unaided...
...gait or a flat-out leap. Hoyle says the control lies in two simple nerve fibers that attach to the jumping muscles; one is for slow action, one for leaping. The tiny bundles of muscle fibers that are packed like the fibrils of a feather all along the thigh are never fully activated by impulses carried by the slow-action circuit, and so the grasshopper can walk where it pleases...
Remote & Austere. He quit Budapest in 1950. Emaciated, half-paralyzed, speaking with a slur, Klemperer kept hunting for occasional conducting jobs. In 1951, in Canada, he fell again and broke his left thigh bone. Hobbling about on crutches, he still had the will to conduct but not the strength to stand up while doing it. Sitting on the podium before orchestras, he showed his old relentless temperament. One day, while conducting Don Giovanni in Cologne, he was so moved at the crash of trombone chords announcing the arrival of the statue for dinner with the Don that Klemperer spontaneously stood...
...drinks. "I take good care of myself," he insists-a disingenuous way of describing a career that has already cost him two broken collarbones, two broken arms, two broken legs and two broken ankles. Both knees have been sprung so that he has to tape them before riding; one thigh muscle has been pulled so often that it has to be strapped down. "Shucks," says Shoulders, "I've never been hurt seriously. Lots of the boys who've been traipsin' around this suicide circuit have to tie their legs on before they ride...
Market Crash. In San Bernardino, Calif., as he and a sheriff's officer chased a burglar through his supermarket, Owner Charles R. Barmlett drew a careful bead on the thief, fired his revolver, wounded the deputy in the thigh...