Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going for the record in St. Louis last week, Wills looked like a walking mummy as he dressed for the game. Huge strawberries from sliding marked his right thigh, and it had to be armor-plated in adhesive tape. But his imploring fans were not disappointed. Singling to first in the third inning, he took off for second like a Texas jack rabbit; trying to cut him down, the St. Louis catcher threw the ball into center field. That gave Wills base No. 96 to tie the record. Four innings later, he went off for second again. The throw seemed...
...DASHES: Villanova's chunky Frank Budd, world-record holder (9.2 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash and undefeated at that distance in two years. But in the Walnut Meet, closely pressed by Florida A. & M.'s 19-year-old Robert Hayes, Budd tore a thigh muscle and pulled up lame. But with Hayes (who clocked a sizzling 9.3 sec. at the nationals) running in the 100 meters, Paul Drayton (who turned in a record-tying 20.5 sec. for 220 yds. around a turn) racing in the 200 meters, and Ulis Williams (whose...
...feeds himself with his left hand. After five days, his temperature was normal, and the wound showed no sign of infection. But this meant no respite. Last week the plastic surgeons took Ev back to the operating room, pared big patches of half-thickness skin from his right thigh, and grafted the patches onto the raw areas near his armpit...
...horrible because it was the only one in the play. Swarthout produces so many horrors he satiates the reader. Nobody will be fooled by pseudo-Greek trappings. "This body was as stately," writes Swarthout, preparing for a seduction scene, "as classic in its shaft of rib and hip and thigh as a column of Ionic order, the lavish capitals of the breasts as perfect, the belly ornate as the enfabled girdle called Cestus...
Ohiri added to his lengthy list of injuries by pulling a thigh muscle during the broad jump competition. But this did not stop him from winning the event with a brilliant 24 ft., 1/4 in, leap, one of the best in the East this spring and something Harvard track hasn't seen for 25 years...