Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mystery began Sept. 7, as Markov was walking near Waterloo Bridge to the BBC's External Services Building. In front of a crowded bus stop, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right thigh and turned to see a heavy-set man carrying an umbrella. "I am sorry," the man muttered in a thick accent, then hopped into a taxi. The same evening, Markov developed a high fever. Four days later he died, but not before telling friends that he thought he had been stabbed by a poison-tipped umbrella wielded by a Communist agent...
...Paris. Three weeks earlier as he left the Etoile Metro station, he too had felt a stinging pain. He was ill for a few days, but did not report the incident to the police. When he did so, doctors found a pellet, identical to the one in Markov's thigh, buried in Rostov's back...
...issuing from a dense forest only 200 yds. from a crowded autobahn. Police investigating the reports surprised two men and a woman blazing away with pistols at a newspaper pinned to a tree. The trio turned their weapons on the police, killing one officer and wounding another in the thigh. The wounded cop managed to shoot two of the attackers, who were later identified as Michael Knoll, 27, and Angelika Speitel, 26, both members of the terrorist Red Army Faction. Speitel is wanted in connection with the kidnap and murder of Industrialist Harms-Martin Schleyer and the deaths of Federal...
Wayne Moore is talking to a friend on the phone in his single atop Leverett G-tower Friday morning. He is wearing two things--a blue bathrobe and a plaster cast entending 2/3 of the way up his right thigh...
...course, halfback Wayne Moore has been lost for the year with the broken ankle he sustained late in the UMass game. Wearing a cast two-thirds of the way up his right thigh, Moore was released from Stillman Infirmary yesterday after a six-day stint there...