Word: foreleg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Engineer Ralph Mosher moved his legs and arms and sent the 3,000-lb., four-legged mastodon lumbering across the floor at General Electric's Schenectady plant. As Mosher flexed his arms, the monster climbed a stack of heavy timbers to pose like a circus elephant with one foreleg held in the air. A flick of Mosher's wrist swung a 6½-ft. metal leg in an arc and sent the timbers flying. Another flick and the foreleg playfully kicked sand at watching newsmen...
...trotter" strides diagonally, pairing his right foreleg and left rear leg, then his left fore and right rear; a "pacer" strides in parallel fashion, both right legs followed by both left...
...foreleg of the elephant and the woman the hind leg," according to an old Thai saying. If that is so, the hind legs are doing more than their share of the walking in present-day Thailand. In increasing numbers, the women of Thailand are abandoning the sheltered life of the home to pursue careers in business. For all their delicate femininity - their diminutive, porcelain prettiness, their singsong voices and their flowing silk robes-they have proved to be tough businesswomen whose impact on their country has already been extensive...
...stakes last year. He was, in more ways than one. All through his career, Bold Ruler was bothered by "splints"-painful, tumorlike growths on the shinbones. Bold Lad had barely started serious training for this year's Derby when he popped a splint on his right foreleg. A veterinarian "fired" him by jabbing an electric needle into the growth to reduce the swelling. A month later Bold Lad popped a splint on his left foreleg...