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Word: wristed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he missed three of Princeton's nine games because of a wrist injury, Flippin scored ten touchdowns, three of which defeated Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Choose Royce Flippin As Football Captain in 1955 | 12/1/1954 | See Source »

Slush & Slime. All week long pro-McCarthy Senators, e.g., Illinois' Everett Dirksen and New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, worked in the back rooms, trying to write a compromise resolution which would slap Joe's wrist but stop short of censure. Helping them was California's Senator William Knowland, who seems to think that his majority-leadership post makes him a Fanny Fixit, obliged to rush to the aid of all Republicans, regardless of what those Republicans may stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Joe & the Handmaidens | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...come back as Bullet Lou Kirn. It had taken him three months even to wiggle his fingers and toes. Now, on a Spartan daily schedule which includes "walks" in the swimming pool, typing to exercise his fingers, pulling on a block and tackle loaded with weights, and twisting a wrist roller, Captain Kirn is mending fast and hopes to attend the Navy-Columbia game this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bullet Lou Ricochets | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

...triple-threat back isn't much good with a double-fracture of the Wrist. In fact, Royce Flippin will be getting the closest he's been to game action since Oct. 16 when he dresses to sit on the Princeton bench this afternoon while the tigers meet the Crimson in Palmer Stadium...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Bad Breaks Behind the Line | 11/6/1954 | See Source »

...Princeton was at a premium, then so were tailbacks as both teams went through last minute preparations. The Tigers were without their all-American candidate Royce Flippin, who was favoring a bad wrist, and his understudy Dick Frye will probably see only limited action...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Improving Varsity Meets Favored Tigers Today | 11/6/1954 | See Source »

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