Word: leggedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colorado's sportsmen were appalled at the bloodletting. Many ranchers had armed themselves to protect their herds from two-legged raiders more dangerous than mountain lions. Said one rancher: "A house or a barn isn't protection enough any more; you've got to have a concrete...
Long-Legged Fish. Behind this round-robin anthropophagy, Dr. Wolff detects the outlines of a weird and dreadful religion. According to ancient legends, death and the fear of death ruled Easter Island. It was good to eat people, for into the eater then flowed the life of a "long-legged...
Other winners last week: CJ Sandy Saddler, 22, a willowy, broomstick-legged Negro, ended Willie Pep's six-year reign as featherweight boxing champion. Saddler, more of a puncher than a boxer, began by bloodying Pep's nose, put him on the floor twice before knocking him out...
Minnie and Mr. Williams (by Richard Hughes; produced by John Gassner & David Dietz) reached Broadway 25 years after it was written, and ran for less than a week. In it the author of A High Wind in Jamaica had written a folksy Welsh fantasy involving a virtuous village clergyman (Eddie...
Then Bob Feller, carrying no tobacco but more dough (the American League's highest paid player, at $87,000), strode stiff-legged to the mound. At 29, Fireball Bob, like Sain, was pitching his first World Series game. Down went the first three Boston Braves in order.