Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a good natured warning about a wrist hold ("Don't get carried away now; but if you ever have to use it, give a good jerk and pop, it breaks."), an instructor demonstrated the evening's final highlight, the Boston Crab. The heels eventually join the head with obvious consequences. Everyone smiled appreciatively...
...York U.S. District Court, the agencies pleaded nolo contendere to the criminal suit, and entered into a consent decree with respect to the civil. The decree restrained them "from allocating or dividing territories" and from "interfering with competition." The court also administered a judicial slap on the wrist: fines of $10,000 for Columbia's Community Concerts, $2,000 apiece for the others...
...Crimson will face stiff opposition from both of these teams. Leo McKenna, sidelined by a broken wrist, may be back in action in another two weeks to share the Green quarterbacking duties with Beagle. With a good pair of ends and some hard-charging sophomores, the team is still eagerly looking for its first victory...
ELECTROCARDIOGRAMS like the sample sections diagramed above represent the paths taken by electrical impulses that the heart muscle generates as it contracts and expands. The first three columns show impulses picked up from pairs of electrodes at the extremities (Lead I, wrist to wrist; Lead II, right arm to left leg; Lead III, left arm to left leg); the second three columns from single electrodes over the chest...
Goggled and greased, wearing Swimming: His means of expression tan-and-white bathing trunks and a white bathing cap, with K-rations strapped to his body and a compass strapped to his wrist, he jaunted down Carson's Beach, in South Boston, and plunged into the unusually rough waters of Pleasure Bay at 11:10 a.m. on an unusually raw Wednesday, boasting the intention of reaching Provincetown, 45 miles distant...