Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill Zwilling, another sophomore, broke his wrist the third day of practice and will be out of action for at least two weeks. Sophomore George Clark suffered a slight concussion Wednesday, but from the indications of his performance Saturday, will be in good shape for practice this week...
Fifteen other football players were sidelined during the first week of practice due to injuries ranging from a broken wrist to pulled muscles...
About five days later, the coarse outer layer on the boy's left arm became soft and crumbly, and fell off. The skin underneath was reddened, but soon became pink and soft. In ten days the arm was clear from shoulder to wrist...
...office on the 24th floor, greeted his secretary and asked: "Will you please call WGN [the Trib's radio station'] and ask them for the correct time?" A moment later she announced that it was 11:21. McCormick carefully set the gold-banded watch on his right wrist and the silver-banded one on his left. Then, watches synchronized, he sat down beside his big marble-topped desk to face the Trib's big problem. The problem: Whom shall it support in the 1952 presidential campaign...
...some 150,000. For more than 30 years he taught his disciples the yoga doctrine that human beings can achieve "god-realization" through their own efforts at disciplining mind and body. Even skeptics testified to his own discipline, e.g., he could slow or speed the pulse in his right wrist, while retaining a normal pulse beat in the left. For the last two years the guru suffered from a "metaphysically induced illness," as his disciples put it-the result of "working out" on his own body some of the physical and spiritual burdens of his friends. Last November he began...