Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said he: "My head began to grow very, very large and I couldn't sit up and I commenced to throw up in the boat." His head felt "as large as a chair." Later he had hand tremors, a "pendulum pain" in the left side of his head, wrist weakness, stiff hands with palms that felt very thick. After treatment on Long Island he felt better, did not have his headaches so regularly. Said he: "As soon as I am healed, I propose to go back...
Brown will probably start his regular quintet, comprising Dean Hennessey and George Dillon at forwards, Captain George "Bunks" Burditt at center, with Mike Fansler and Hugh Hyde at the guards. Also slated to see action are Frank Bixler, Mike Keene, who will play without a cast on his left wrist for the first time this season, Al Reade, Mike DeLeo, Dick Forster, Mal Moley, and Don Richards...
...They get closer and you hear the whisper of them as they break in close. There is a gunlike report and a sharp pain in your shoulder. In the windshield a large hole through the safety glass. You think you've been hit. The co-pilot's wrist is bloody, and your shoulder feels numb. You can't go fast enough; you're crawling over that target. You've got to level off and fly straight to drop those bombs, but you'd rather do anything than give those gunners a straight shot...
Mike Keene, captain of last year's Freshman squad who has been handicapped by a broken wrist since the beginning of the season, has shone in practice despite his bandaged wrist and is slated to replace Hugh Hyde at one of the starting guard positions...
...four minutes, then the lights in the gym went out. With the score 5-5, the teams moved to another gym, played four minutes, gave up when the lights went out with the score at 11-11. In South Bend, Ind., Ruth McGrady slipped, fell, broke her right wrist, stood up, slipped, fell, broke her left...