Word: leg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short distance. They gave the Viceroy 38 body wounds but they killed numbers of Ethiopians and would infallibly have killed Graziani & Staff had the tin roof not been there. The Chief of Italy's East African Air Force General Aurelio Liotta not only had to have a leg amputated, as the world press has reported, but also lost an eye and suffered 20 body wounds, according to the French version...
...Duston, England, Marmaduke Harrison, 82, died after breaking a thigh in trying to put both feet in the same trouser leg...
Paula Echols, 15, was in an English class with 20 other students when she saw the building shake and the roof fall in. Then Paula saw her teacher's leg protruding from a rumbling pile of brick and mortar. Pinned beneath her desk, Paula heard the boy across the aisle screaming for help. Another boy dragged her out through the window-frame...
...basement, John Nelson, 17, was working on a lathe. His teacher was standing about five feet away. There were 15 other boys in the room. Then a big mass of sand and what looked like a ball of fire tumbled in. Something hit John Nelson's leg and slit the front of his pants. It felt "like a charley horse you get playing football...
...used. All the top-notch runners, you will notice, are perfectly relaxed through the shoulders when running. Good form is essential to the runner. And there are times in the continued use of a limb when certain muscles in that limb should be relaxed: the muscles of the lower leg for instance need be contracted only half the time. Fellows that don't relax muscles not in use tie up easily...