Word: legging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down to death. From the aerodrome on the bank a boat put out, men floundered into the water/ worked desperately to extricate the officer and mechanic in the cockpit. The latter, one Samuel Schultz, was easy to lift out, but the plunging engine had jammed the officer's leg, crushed in his chest. "Easy, boys," he said over and over in a dry, thin voice. Two hours later, in the Naval Hospital, he died-Commander John Rodgers, U.S.N...
After an hour and a half Flyer Bettis regained consciousness. Shots of pain told him that his left leg was smashed. He tried to lick his lips and another shower of agony told more: both jaws broken. Slowly he freed himself from his safety belt. Twenty-four hours crawled...
...still fringed the ridges. Millard Aurand and Harrison McAllip were afoot early, out to pick berries. Toward them, in great trouble on the road came a man, crawling with a broken leg. When they reached him he could just whisper...
...doing running for public office? All his life he had avoided it. Born in Cayuga County,* New York, in 1865, he earned his first dollar in a coal mine in Braidwood, 111. Miners probably decided that George Brennan would make a success of life when he lost a leg. A switchman was absent on a post-payday drunk. George, substituting, tried to uncouple two cars of a moving train. His foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there. He wears to this day a peg leg; loses 1 in. of his 5-ft.-6-in. stature. He then tried...
Would-be-assassin Domingo Masachs Torrent, markedly neurasthenic, did not notice in the excitement of shouting, "Down with you, tyrant!" a secret service car which swooped upon him, ran him down, broke his leg...