Word: thighed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself staring at an eight foot drop. He told himself to relax and enjoy the ride and began to project his trajectory when he noticed a fallen tree resting on its branches directly in his path. He slammed into it at full speed, the trunk hitting him in mid-thigh. He, too, managed to ski away with only severe bruises. He skis...
...designers hiked the hemlines on at least some of their clothes. Women's Wear Daily promptly trumpeted the return of the mini. In fact, it is not. Skirt lengths, like their wearers, will continue to come in all altitudes. Neither do the new, higher-hemmed styles resemble the thigh-flashers of the hip-hugging mini revolution. Perhaps reacting to Paris' long, sizzling summer, the designers of the new short look have genu- flected toward comfort, stressing coolness, looseness, flounce...
...move out. Most of them stayed put, pointing out that it was not even raining where they were. "We had trouble convincing them that the river was even coming up," says Watson. "They'd want to know if it was coming up to here," (he touched his thigh) "or to here" (he touched his waist...
...large vessel dropped the disguise from its gunports and revealed itself as the 34-gun British frigate Milford. When Captain James Tracy refused to surrender, the Milford's guns pounded the Yankee Hero for two hours, killing or disabling nearly half its 40 crewmen. Tracy, wounded in the thigh, managed to gasp, "Strike the colors," then fainted...
...players have a thigh taped and two more wear a knee-brace on one knee. In addition, three more players have been out for part of the season with mononeucleosis...