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...doctors were puzzled by a bruise and swelling on the top of her head. Eventually, her parents recalled that six days earlier, something had hit her on the head while she was standing near a power mower. X rays showed that a piece of metal, more than an inch long, had penetrated the skull and a big abscess had formed around it. Surgeons had to open the child's skull to remove the metal and drain the abscess. And it took a battery of antibiotics and serums to pull the little girl through a severe infection...
...varsity football team for three seasons. Named to every All-American team in 1941, he still remains Harvard's last All-American. This fact was mentioned in almost every news written about him. The "Peabody Bandwagon" adds: "He raised his weight from 165 to 195 pounds and added an inch and a half to his neck measurement with exercises which included standing on his head for long periods of time...
...Konev's reply proved "unacceptable," Clarke hung a huge padlock on the gate of the Soviet mission in Frankfurt, posted a communications truck near the entrance to report every movement of the occupants. Soviet soldiers could leave if they wished, said Clarke, but they would be tailed every inch of the way by armed U.S. troops. Two days later the Soviets retaliated in kind by sealing off the 14-member U.S. mission in Potsdam, confining them to its four-story, 20-room villa...
...family may entrust himself without anxiety." He raised no objections when in 1960 Jacques cruised the good ship Trieste to the bot tom of the Marianas Trench, the deepest known place in the ocean, where the water pressure at 37,800 ft. is eight tons per square inch...
Charles Christofferson, 9, ran through a closed patio door, fell back on a 9-inch shard of glass, puncturing his large intestine...