Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...specific controversy is the commission's "Single Bullet Theory"-the belief that one bullet from Oswald's rifle struck Kennedy in the neck, exited through his throat, then plowed on through Governor Connally's torso, smashed his right wrist and finally lodged in his left thigh...
...miniskirt in London had already risen as high on the thigh as Tarzan's loincloth when Designer Mary Quant, 32, grandam of Chelsea's fashion hippies, decided to hike the hems still higher. The new skirts flutter 11 in. above the knees, and require about as much cloth to make as a nice Victorian handkerchief. But the textile industry can take some heart. Mary has designed demure little matching boxer shorts for the birds to wear with their demi-minis. "They are the logical answer," she says, "for skirts so short that girls are showing everything...
...controversial "single-bullet theory." This is its conclusion that a bullet hit the back of Kennedy's neck and emerged through his lower throat before it struck Texas Governor John Connally in the back, smashed across a rib, shattered his right wrist, and punctured his left thigh. Commission members accepted this explanation after they saw a tourist's film of the assassination, which indicated that the interval between Kennedy's reaction to being hit and Connally's first visible reaction to his wounds was-at the most-1.8 sec. Because of the time it took...
Despite the rule against "suggestive posture," Paul Lukas, with nimble hand, and Sally Blane, with ample thigh, cavorted in 1933's Grand Slam. Despite strictures against double-entendre, Mae West scarcely needed to be more direct than when she observed, "I like a man who takes his time." Later, the code's prohibition against "lustful embraces" did not stop Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr from wrestling all over a Hawaii beach in From Here to Eternity. And scarcely anybody paid any attention to the taboo against "explicit treatment of adultery...
...starlet and daughter of a United Artists vice president, had to be content with something less spectacular but considerably more ladylike. With Daddy in tow, Tanya made her big entrance at a party at the Palazzo Ca' Rezzonico, dressed in a spangled magenta mini-gown slit to the thigh...