Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...memo to the designers: Better get back to the old drawing board and quit trying to redo Pat Nixon [Jan. 24]. I predict that increased exposure to her tasteful grooming is going to send not a few medallioned, chain-dangling, flour-faced, sequin-eyelidded, thigh-exposing adult females back to their full-length mirrors...
...knee is never the same, technically speaking," says Dr. Robert Ker-lan, a well-known Los Angeles orthopedist. "There will be a little more play in the knee, a slight feeling of instability. Your thigh will tend to keep going after your foot stops. It's a weird sensation." At best, the doctors can restore only 60% of a player's former prowess; the other 40% is up to the player himself. Not everybody can or wants to play football on a knee that is inherently weaker and susceptible to further injury. Halfbacks Johnny Roland...
...defense, except for Gray, is healthy, although goalie Richie Locksley has been suffering from a pulled thigh muscle...
...McLoone '69 hurt his hip midway through his sophomore year and suffered nerve damage in his left calf early last season. His bad luck continued when he pulled a thigh muscle on the second day of this year's pre-season training camp. But he has recovered fully and now feels he can do the best running he has ever done...
...Tokyo, Oerter had more than a bad neck to bother him; he was hemorrhaging from a ripped rib cartilage, and still he set an Olympic mark of 200 ft. 1½ in. In Mexico City, he slipped in the rain-soaked discus ring and tore a thigh muscle. Relaxants and ice treatments numbed the pain for the finals, and on his third toss he won his fourth gold medal. Oerter immediately began thinking ahead to Munich in 1972-and the possibility of a fifth title. "I think I can continue to improve until...