Word: calf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bright spot of the day, the sterling run of Jeff Campbell, was offset, however, when, all-Ivy runner Jeff Brokaw was forced to drop out about a mile into the race with a calf injury. Brokaw had been counted on to provide some of the Crimson's scoring depth in yesterday's race, but it appears that he might also be out of the IC4As to be held in New York Monday...
...plasma starts going immediately,"e; Kerwin told the American Academy of Pediatrics in Chicago, "and the red blood cells follow." Kerwin, who was responsible for medically monitoring his mates on Skylab 1, also found that loss of blood fluid-and muscle tissue-was so great that the thigh and calf actually shrank...
Wearing bright orange rubber gloves that extend just past the French cuffs of his delicate shirt, Michel Piccoli lifts the head of a slaughtered calf high above his own head. "To be, or not to be," he screams in a shrill voice. Ugo Tognazzi makes a loud farting noise, tongue between his lips, and the feast begins. Kidneys bourguinon. Kidneys bordelaise. Crayfish a la Mozart. Each dish has an identity of its own, but the diners ignore all subtlety in order to concentrate more conscientiously on their suicidal quest. Marcello Mastroianni stuffs down six clams in one bite. Grubby fingers...
...wars, five Presidents, and that picture of Rita Hayworth in a black-bodiced, white satin nightgown. Fiorello La Guardia appears, blowing smoke rings with bemused insouciance. So does Nikita Khrushchev, shaking his fist in the face of the U.N., and a dowager named Betty Henderson, hoisting a varicose-veined calf onto a table to celebrate the opening of the Metropolitan Opera...
...Joseph Patrick Kennedy III has already encountered a remarkable string of misfortunes. The adventurous oldest son of the late Robert F. Kennedy has been attacked by a roan antelope in Africa and knocked down by a bull calf in Spain; he has broken his leg while playing football and again while skiing; he has been skyjacked by Arab terrorists on an airliner to Southern Yemen. Last week young Joe had his worst mishap to date while visiting some friends on Nantucket (sister island to Martha's Vineyard, site of Uncle Ted's disastrous automobile accident in 1969, which...