Word: groin
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...sights of automatic rifles. This day, January 13, a fight broke out between a white and a black inmate. The tower guard began to fire at the black inmates walking in the yard. He fired four shots, and three men were killed. (One white prisoner was hit in the groin by a ricocheting bullet.) A black man shouted to the guard that he wanted to take one of the wounded to the hospital, but the guard gestured with his rifle, telling him to stay away. The wounded convict, shot in the leg, bled to death on the concrete floor...
...injured runners are sophomores Marshall Jones, who has a groin pull, and Nat Guild, who is suffering from a hip ailment. A few other Crimson harriers have slight injuries, but will run today...
...other novel is Windsong by Nicholas Gagarin 70 (New York: William Morrow, 55.95). Windsong received a sympathetic pan from the CRIMSON (he is former Executive Editor) and a brief, incisive kick to the groin from the Times. It is a somewhat disjointed account of one-boy-or-several boys' life at Harvard. The amusements Nick's hero(es) engage(s) in are of the drugs-and-bizarre relationships variety, but plus ca change -of the two main girls in our little boy's life, he meets one at his St. Paul's commencement and another at a Fly Club garden...
...strips off its campy veneer and goes for the jugular. The March of the Toreadors suddenly becomes Deutschland über Alles as crowds roar "Sieg Heil!" Then Spiro Agnew denounces effete snobs-and the band plays Stars and Stripes Forever. It is as devastating as a knee in the groin. Children shrill the Gypsy Song, break into a tapdance and a pianist plays an ornate set of embellishments on the first phrase of the Habañera; he knows all the tricks but cannot remember the melody. The Card Song is swallowed by a monstrous Dies Irae, and everything ignites...
...Breall of San Francisco writes to the Journal editors: "I would like to note a few other possible dangers." First of all, Breall says, a weight lifter should learn to breathe properly, or he may fall in a faint, damage his lungs or suffer a hernia in the groin or the diaphragm. Taking issue with those who dismiss high blood pressure as a hazard, Breall draws attention to the danger of "weight lifter's hypertension." A man performing "severe isometrics," he explains, markedly increases his blood pressure because he tenses his arm or leg muscles and cuts down...