Word: leggedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The dirty-legged slattern in the prisoner's box squinted nervously at the six U.S. officers on the Munich dais. In staccato tones, U.S. Brigadier General Emil Kiel read her sentence: "Use Koch-life imprisonment." Justice had caught up with the redheaded, 40-year-old Witch of Buchenwald, who...
In a little frame shack, near Dallas' St. Matthews' Cathedral, a group of teen-aged boys sat cross-legged on a wrestling mat, listening to an Episcopal priest. His language was not out of the King James Version. "Now, I don't want any of you lugs...
As it turns out, the sentence is not so light after all. He is hauled about, willy-nilly, among her eager little friends, embarrassed by her embittered swain (Johnny Sands), and teased at every turn by Miss Loy's insufferably smug lover, Rudy Vallee. Worse still, of course, he...
On a raised white platform in Delhi's Untouchable colony sat the Mahatma, cross-legged on a white cushion, a cooling wet white kerchief covering his bald head. Overhead glimmered a lone 80-watt electric bulb. Reluctantly he assented to the splitting of India. "What is past is past...
But Gil Pitt was born & bred a mountain man. By the time he was knee-high to a fox pup, he knew nearly all there was to know about handling an ax and a rifle. He grew up long-legged and straight as a tulip tree, standing 6 feet 3...