Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...short ride by Star ferry across the harbor from Kowloon to Hong Kong introduces tourists to a popular local pastime: watching Hong Kong girls, wearing cheong-san dresses slit to the thigh, cope with the wind. The first impression of Hong Kong itself is of noise: the staccato of pneumatic drills, thump of pile drivers, cries of hawkers, click of mah-jongg tiles behind shuttered doors, the shouts of coolies dancing under the weight of bamboo shoulder poles. Brass bands sound funeral dirges in the narrow streets; radios whine the cacophony of Cantonese music; the rataplan of $1,000 worth...
...Newspaper Guild and printing-trades unions, along with the rival evening Oregon Journal, since Nov. 10, 1959. Both have lost heavily on circulation but are still appearing. Last week Donald R. Newhouse, 41, Samuel Newhouse's cousin and business manager of the morning Oregonian, was wounded in the thigh by an unidentified assailant who fired a shotgun through a basement window...
...exceptions, the varsity is nearly healthy. Inside Bruce Johnstone, out for almost a month with a groin injury, played in Saturday's Columbia game, but will not make the trip to Dartmouth. Inside Johann Nottebohm has an injured Achilles tendon, and fullback John Jeppson still is suffering from a thigh pull. Left halfback Bill King, a defensive whis whom coach Bruce Munro calls "the backbone of the halfback line," is afflicted with a virus, but should be ready to play...
...just one of seven that have crippled the Crimson for its season inaugural. Chris Martin, the sensation of the first week of training who would have started at left wing today, is out, as are insides Bruce Johnstone and Dick McIntosh, wing Sam Rodd, out with a pulled thigh muscle, as are inside Dick McIntosh, wing Sam Rodd, and fullbacks John Jeppson and Charley David...
...very noticeable in his pants. We have never admired the American seat." Said another: "We can't vouch for the Windsors." At Henry Poole & Co., oldest of the fashionable Savile Row establishments, a cutter learnedly expounded the theory of the ample trouser leg: "The full thigh acts as a hinge, enabling a man to lift his leg without banging his knee on the front of his trousers...