Word: groining
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...subconscious protest against the current fashion for sexual confusion." Too much snobbery? "I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props ... I myself abhor Wine-and-Foodmanship. My own favorite food is scrambled eggs." Yet, though he has never been known to kick anyone in the groin, and fancies his own Ford Thunderbird over a Bentley, Author Fleming strikes his friends as "awfully like Bond really, appearance, clothes, Floris bath essence...
...white blood corpuscle count fell from the normal 5,000 per cubic centimeter to zero. Then a kidney from a four-year-old girl (whose treatment for hydrocephalus required kidney removal) was transplanted to Mrs. Lowman. The Boston surgeons attached it to the femoral arteries and veins below the groin in her right thigh. She received a dozen marrow transfusions before and during the operation, mainly from her brothers. With her count of disease-fighting white corpuscles still at only 250 per cc., she has been kept ever since in the near-sterility of an operating room...
...normal occupations. After appendectomy, reported Philadelphia Surgeon N. Henry Moss at a Manhattan conference, doctors recommend that their civilian patients return to light work within anywhere from five to 30 days, and to heavy work within seven to 60 days. The range was even wider after repair of a groin hernia in men over 50: from seven to 84 days for light work, 20 to 180 for heavy. By contrast, patients in the Air Force zoomed back into the wild blue yonder only 13 days (average) after appendectomy, 17 days after hernia repair. Naval recruits went back to the full...
...title piece of this strange short-story collection, an emotionally disturbed child kicks his father in the groin. In Don't Call Me by My Right Name a man and wife take turns beating each other up. In Plan Now to Attend a hypocritical evangelist gets blind drunk in midmorning. In Sound of Talking a crippled husband makes his wife share his suffering. Almost all the women characters are fat and fortyish; almost all the men are shamed and unhappy. The poor are most often feebleminded, the rich vicious...
...accomplish something-from assembling a do-it-yourself barbecue pit to catching a taxi in a downpour-and the fun lies in his frustration. Purdy uses much the same theme, but his purpose is to reveal the horror underlying the humor. The father who gets kicked in the groin has been trying to make up to his small son for his orphaned state. The husband and wife who belabor each other seem right off the burlesque stage, but the story's aim is to expose the canker that lies at the heart of comedy. Ohio-born James Purdy...