Word: wristed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional round of big-college holiday battles. Last year's N.C.A.A. champion, U.C.L.A. ran its 1964 winning streak to five in a row, baffling the fast-breaking Eagles with a full-court "zone press"-despite 34 points by B.C. Guard John Austin, who was playing with an injured wrist...
...number one this season is Romer Holleran, a top player as long ago as 1961, who spent several years away from school and returned to Harvard last spring. He became eligible in March and played a match or two in the number two position after Williams broke a wrist...
...life." The reporter yelled, "Let her go, she's just a girl," but to no avail. As he tried to carry her to safety, the rest of the girl's clothing was ripped off; Garcia's pockets were picked, his watch was snatched from his wrist, his head was smacked with what felt like a piece of pipe, and something smashed against his right kidney. His knees sagged, but he kept going...
GOVERNOR JOHN CONNALLY, 47, who was wounded in the same limousine in which Kennedy died, was uneasy in large crowds during his winning gubernatorial campaign this fall, often jumped nervously at sudden noises. His right wrist, smashed with one of Oswald's bullets, still gives him trouble. He must eat lefthanded, has difficulty brushing his teeth, cannot handle small coins with his right hand. Obviously scarred by his involvement, he sobbed recently during a television interview about the assassination. At a press conference last week, he said: "More than ever before, I have tried to keep uppermost...
...looked enormously relaxed, but he still couldn't quite turn off the campaign juices. During a shopping trip to Charlotte Amalie, he bought a can of salted nuts, a tax-free wrist watch-and strode up and down the streets all but searching for more hands to shake. He went deep-sea fishing, boated a 6-ft. 6-in. sailfish, posed afterward for bare-chested photographs with his son Bob. 20. To prove "his prowess, Hubert proudly flexed his biceps...