Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bites his wrist. He rips her dress off. Her eyes dilate. She clutches her breasts protectively. He kisses her brutally. She goes limp. Then slowly her arms, as if moved by a will of their own, go gliding around him, and her fingers dig greedily into his flesh. "Just once." she sighs a little later. "Just once...
...Stapp lost no time repeating the run himself. His vision blurred to a smoky green fog, and he wound up with a body full of bruises where he had slammed against his harness. His right hand slipped from its grip on the seat's arm rest and his wrist broke as it hit against the hand grip. But he had discovered what he set out to find: the previous rider had failed to keep his head down while decelerating, and his helmet had been pulled off. With the new helmets, says Colonel Stapp proudly, "Your head may come...
Home at Last. Since then, Stapp has lost six fillings, cracked a few ribs and suffered several retinal hemorrhages. He broke his right wrist a second time, late in 1950, while making a relatively mild 20-g deceleration to test a harness while sitting on a seat-pack parachute. The quick stop threw him forward, the weight of his body thrust against his palms where they rested on handholds. "A severe pain was felt [in] the right forearm," wrote Stapp in his report. "The right wrist had been taped with adhesive because of a previous fracture . . . This tape burst...
...subject," he continued drily, "was not in shock. The fracture of the right [wrist] was reduced by the subject while walking to the laboratory...
Brought up from the Negro League's Kansas City Monarchs, Ernie hit .275 (including 19 homers) as a rookie last year, batted in 79 runs. Weighing only 170 Ibs., he depends on timing and strong wrist action to lift the ball. Said Cub Manager Stan Hack last week: "That boy's got no nerves. He's a real quiet, modest guy. After he hits a homer, he comes back to the dugout as if he done something wrong...