Word: thighed
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...ride around the farm, The flies so numerous, they did swarm. One chanced to bite him on the thigh; The devil take the blue-tail...
...Grenades. While Pfc. Carter ran back a few yards to get another rifle from the company command post, the enemy started tossing hand grenades. One landed inside the foxhole. Harrell tried to find it and throw it back. It blew off his left hand. His left thigh was broken, too, and he bled from many wounds made by fragments of the grenade...
...Davao last week, dreaming of his home in Utah, he saw a vaguely familiar face in the column of replacements moving forward. "What's your outfit, buddy?" he asked. "Thirty-first Infantry," said the newcomer, and moved on. A quarter of a mile later, Private Hunsaker slapped his thigh and exclaimed: "I knew I had seen that guy before. He's my brother...
Wounded in the thigh, Red Army Private Valentin Cherepanov lost so much blood that he died. The attending surgeon certified: "Death following shock and acute hemorrhage...
Last week Correspondent Weissblatt, swathed in a plaster cast from trunk to toes, received the Purple Heart. A Manhattan surgeon had removed the bullet from his thigh, sawed through the crookedly knit bone and patched it with a six-inch stainless steel plate and eight screws. Now both legs are the same length. Soon Weissblatt will walk again without crutches...