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...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...
Finally Bruno wheels on his assailant. His meaty hand, riding on the roar of the crowd, smashes into Koloff's chest. Koloff staggers while the boy behind me, his band on the thigh of his hard-faced date, continues to shriek, "Kill, Bruno, Kill." Moments later, as Bruno smashes Koloff on the head with a wooden chair (not the Hollywood breakaway variety) the crowed swarms like jackals in a feeding frenzy against the plexiglass enclosing the ring. It is obvious that the mere defeat of the villain will not satisfy them--they howl for blood, for dismemberment...
...real big question mark," McCurdy says, "is Fitzsimmons," who came home early after a thigh injury against Virginia...
...around and around with only the slightest trace of ballet training, the boy refuses to sweat. He whirls on a small round platform set eight feet above the crowd, nearly nude, brandishing a large glimmering orange cape. A dark oval beauty-mark is stencilled on the front of his thigh. He thinks about how hot it is under the lights. Up here on the smooth plaster cylinder he is safe; it is his turf, aloof, contained. Despite the energy of his grinding movements, no emotion glides over his soft face and glazed eyes. Perhaps he imagines that there...
...which I apologize to Crimson readers. As to Chavez's health during the march, Chavez himself says [on page 211 and 212] the pain was severe. "I was so miserable, I thought I was going to die...By then my leg was swollen all the way up to my thigh, and I was running a high fever. I continued walking, but on the seventh day, because I was shaking with fever, the nurse put me in the station wagon." In short, the man was in pretty tough shape...