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...cannily that it almost seems true. But, as it turns out, Sally is really the dumb one: Ed's seeming obtuseness is only his shield against her disdain. Sally glimpses that truth when she catches her husband at a party with his arm pressed against Marylynne's "shimmering upper thigh." Too late, Sally muses, "Possibly he's enormously clever...
...could say, "Look, Ninoy's wife may have studied in New York and she may come from a wealthy family, but she can ride in a carabao cart." This was not my idea. We walked in the rice fields, and once we had to cross a stream. It was thigh deep. I looked at that water and thought, Am I supposed to wade in there? So I called to Ninoy, and I was expecting him to help since we had been married only a year. But he called to one of his security men and said, "Carry her." (groaning...
Amazingly, ten aboard the plane survived, including the Soviet pilot, Vladimir Novoselov, who was taken to a South African hospital with a broken thigh and a concussion. According to initial reports, Novoselov claimed the plane was shot down, and another survivor, Machel Bodyguard Fernando Joao, said, "We heard a shot or a bang from within the plane. The plane vibrated, and then we crashed." The official Mozambique daily Noticias speculated that electronic interference by South Africa might have led the pilot off course...
...filled in for him. The next day McEnroe, working out with Jimmy Connors on a practice court, caught sight of British Photographer Tommy Hindley, who had tussled with him in the past. McEnroe let loose a couple of close-range volleys, one of which hit the photographer in the thigh, and, said Hindley, threatened to put the next one between his eyes...
...local chief and noted, "She was another of those wonders of obesity, unable to stand excepting on all fours." He then cajoled the large lady into giving him permission to measure her and dutifully reported the results: "Round arm, 1 ft. 11 in.; chest, 4 ft. 4 in.; thigh, 2 ft. 7 in.; calf, 1 ft. 8 in.; height...