Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sheathed in a tight skirt, Princess Margaret, 31, showed a bit of thigh as she hopped behind Husband Tony for her first spin on a motorcycle in rural Somersetshire and was promptly knocked from pillion to post by London fashion editors who thought "chic and cheerful" trousers would have been more suitable. Nothing fazed, Meg cheerfully let herself in for more complaints about royal overexposure by showing up at a London theater in a one-strap evening gown that displayed a dazzling expanse of shoulder...
...Welsh regiment-"how glad we thought we were to step outside its brackets at the end of '18." In the regiment is Private John Ball, who goes off to France, endures six rainy months in the trenches, then finds combat ended for him with a bullet in the thigh...
...were impersonal. Moving ever so slowly, hanging by the knees from a partner's shoulders, the dancers stared blankly from zombie-like deadpans. Occasionally the master himself relaxed into a sneer, but for the most part it was only by the glistening of sweat or the trembling of a thigh or a bent knee that one could be sure the dancers were human, and not just sinuous, supple machines...
Crises, the second piece, fared much better. Red and orange leotards against a light blue back-drop were eye-catching: and the sight of dancers pulling each other along the floor by elastic bands around the waist or thigh drew laughter and put the audience on the performer's side, for the first time. Abandoning the slow death of Aeon, the dancers came alive, though they maintained regulation disjunctively by counterpoising two groups on separate parts of the stage...
...dollars and his car key to my thigh...