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...means of well-established formulas, for example, an individual's face can be reconstructed accurately from his skull, his height calculated with 99% precision from certain single bones (e.g., a man's height is usually 1.88 times the length of his thigh bone plus 813.06 mm.). A person's bones "almost literally punch a time clock" as he grows. Sure clues are the uniting of long bones to their caps and the successive disappearance of sutures (seams) in the skull, which occur at precisely known stages in a man's life. Some Krogman performances...
...flavors of sweat, the human body is a regular soda fountain-the sweat of the brow is strong in uric acid, the sweat of the hands is strong in chloride (salt), the sweat of the thigh is strong in lactic acid. These pungent facts are disclosed in a report by Drs. Olaf Mickelson and Ancel Keys of the University of Minnesota in the Journal of Biological Chemistry...
...Girls Go To It. At first, for lack of surgeons, Seagrave let the nurses help. "As fire began to sweep the town" (one of the many to which Seagrave moved his base) "we returned to our operating tables. ... I simply could not locate the bullet in the thigh of one of our Chinese patients. 'Here, let me have a try,' said Koi. She inserted one tiny finger in the wound, using it as a guide for a long forceps, and out came the bullet! 'Listen, woman, what are you helping me for? You take over this table...
...speech was something more than a personal declaration. Spoken by the man who has become the symbol of unbending New Dealism in the shifting winds of Washington, it might also be taken as a message from Mr. Roosevelt to his disgruntled New Deal following: though he smites them hip & thigh, he still loves them. And loyal Henry Wallace, smitten hip & thigh himself, still loved his chastener. But as for his troubled followers, where could they go now, within the Democratic party...
After three days, the tax deadlock was broken. The Governor's compromise had won. Harold Stassen drank a glass of milk in celebration. To the Governor's office came tall, husky Lieut. Governor Ed Thye (pronounced "thigh"), Harold Stassen's hand-picked successor. Said Ed Thye: "Governor, if you hadn't staked all your chips on me, I wouldn't be where I am today, and I want you to know I appreciate it." Said Harold Stassen, with proper modesty: "You did it yourself...