Word: thighed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Miss America 1946, decided the Atlantic City judges after a close study of the innate and acquired talents of 16 vaselike finalists, was that fair-skinned, blue-eyed brunette, the 123-lb. one with the 25½-in. waist, 35½-in. bust, 36-in. hips, 22½-in. thigh, 13½-in. calf, and 8½-in. ankle -that 21-year-old one from California, name of Marilyn Buferd. "Oh my God," said Miss Buferd, "I never expected it." New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson immediately interviewed her. Had she any foibles? "Pardon me," retorted Miss Buferd icily...
...confused with more conventional metal splints which are attached outside, the nail is driven into the marrow of the bone. In cases of broken femurs, the surgeon first manipulates the thigh to bring the broken pieces of bone together, using a fluoroscope to see what he is doing. Then, through a one-inch incision in the hip over the end of the bone, he rams a guide wire down through the bone's marrow canal. He slips the hollow, stainless-steel nail over the wire, hammers it in the full length of the bone, pulls out the wire...
...haunch, the paunch, the thigh...
Triumph. For A. P. Giannini, who had once peddled vegetables, it was enough to meditate in fierce and profane triumph. He still had enemies, but he had smitten the big ones hip & thigh. Wall Street, and the "goddamned Eastern bankers" who had once tried to swallow him, could only watch him impotently now, with half-reluctant admiration. This week, after 42 years of struggle, his Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association, which covers California with 494 branches in over 300 cities, had become the biggest private bank in the world. Once before, Bank of America had passed Manhattan...
Radio, which lately has been smitten hip & thigh by its critics (TIME, March 4, 18), last week found a friend. The University of Denver's National Opinion Research Center reported the results of a poll gratifying to the industry and confounding to its detractors. Said NORC...