Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...catalogue of Ike's complaints is considerable: swollen and painful wrists and hands; a touch of arthritis in the left knee, presumably the result of an old football injury; bursitis in the left elbow, similar to some old trouble in his right shoulder. But neither for him nor his fellow sufferers is any preventive medicine effective. Indeed, it took Walter Reed's expert doctors weeks of tests before they could put the label "osteoarthritis" on their patient's wrist pains. After that, the prescription was as simple as the diagnosis had been painstaking: aspirin to ease...
Slaps & Punches. For two months, things went pleasantly enough. Then one day Paula Baniszewski, now 11, hit Sylvia on the jaw so hard that Paula broke her wrist. Paula's mother took to slapping Sylvia for ever more frequent, if imagined, offenses. She did not complain to her parents when they made a visit in early October. After that, her tormentors became increasingly sadistic. John Baniszewski Jr., now 13, and two neighbor boys, diabetic Richard Dean ("Ricky") Hobbs and Coy Hubbard, both 15, joined the laceration game. Sylvia was burned with matches and cigarettes, whipped with a heavy leather...
...cracked somewhere behind the crowd. Police raced through the neighborhood until they found four young boys playing with a rifle that had discharged, slightly wounding a housewife in the crowd. Unruffled, the Queen Mum went trout fishing in Lake Wanaka, catching nothing, despite her fine fly-fisher's wrist. She did set some sort of local record as the only angler who ever waded in wearing hip boots, sports jacket, and a large string of pearls...
Brandeis's best hitter, Larry Bates, broke his wrist in the M.I.T. game, but the Judges still have a couple of capable batsmen, including shortstop George Frost, who is hitting .333, and long-ball hitter Jim Boyce...
...earth was approximately as radioactive as its weight in wrist watches...