Word: groining
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Boys are taught how to creep and crawl, break arms, kill with bayonets and knives, gouge eyes, knee the enemy in the groin. They are warned at the start to expect bloody noses and black eyes - especially when teams tear into each other with no holds barred. They take their lessons in dirty fighting seriously...
...shot Ben in the stomach, in the ribs and in the groin...
...Bubonic plague, affecting the lymphatic glands and producing dark ugly swelling (called bubo) of the groin or armpits...
This was the worst atrocity committed by a civilized nation in modern times. It was not even hot and savage like the Japanese rape of Nanking. It was cold and calm. The Germans did it with the expression of a concentration-camp guard kicking a prisoner in the groin. There was no need of the grapevine to get news of Lidice to the civilized world: the Germans themselves announced it in official radio broadcasts from Prague and Berlin...
...within a week there were six cases. All died. Dr. Lim flew from Chungking to superintend the autopsies. They showed the marks of the "black death"-the black tongue and dark spots on the skin from which the plague got its name, the hugely swollen lymph glands of the groin and armpits. Careful laboratory tests confirmed the autopsy findings...