Word: braced
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five are back at work, but Alabama's Kenneth A. Roberts still wears a brace and walks on crutches...
...Pauline Schleifer, 10, was stricken with polio only seven months ago. Encumbered by a huge, white leather neck brace, she walked quietly about by herself until she found company: another girl, confined to a wheelchair, whom she could help...
...Razor's Edge. At 13,000 ft. they crawled down the last dangerous stretch: a razor-edged ridge of blue ice. They were roped together, with Argus leading. He was carefully cutting holds when Thayer, the last man, slipped and shot down the sIope.The other three tried to brace themselves, but they went hurtling down...
...deep purple flowers. A mine suddenly blew up one of our trucks, but the explosion did not bother a pregnant woman padding impassively along with her bare-bottomed child and her geese. French artillery opened fire, yet a couple of peasants dog-trotted calmly past the guns with a brace of squealing pigs suspended from a pole. They did not waste their glances upon the foreigners and their machines...
...TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE (378 pp.)-Erich Maria Remarque-Harcourt, Brace...