Word: leggedness
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In every way it was a wonderful foot race. In at least one way it told more about the 1960 Olympics than any other single event. For nearly three laps, the winner-a hawk-nosed, crane-legged fellow with a familiar, loping stride-stayed back with the pack in the...
All roads led to Rome. Day after day, the swarm of tourists dumfounded whitecoated policemen with questions in a dozen languages. In the Olympic Village, the world's finest athletes relaxed in new dormitories that even provided outsize beds (called "De Gaulles'') for the long-legged likes...
Wandering through a Florida meadow in the spring of 1952, amateur Birdwatcher Richard Borden spotted a curious sight: among a grazing herd of cattle was a flock of yellow-legged, short-necked white herons, darting between the cows' legs, snaring grasshoppers flushed up from the pasture. Borden casually shot...
Most professional golfers cannot take the tension of watching their competitors hole out in the final stages of a big tournament. They sweat it out in the clubhouse locker room. But as husky Joyce Ziske clumped confidently onto the 18th green at the Worcester, Mass. Country Club last week needing...
Earnest students of culture, the German campers efficiently map out their trips to the last detail, often spend a year planning their itinerary. In some cities, street hawkers do a thriving business renting clothes to hairy-legged Germans kept out of historic cathedrals by priests who consider Lederhosen unsuitable wear...