Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Romola Nijinsky says her husband did ten such leg flicks in air, more than any other dancer on record...
...with only scraps of blankets for covers. The chain-gang bosses say the Negroes had plenty of heat, plenty of covers. The Negroes say their feet froze because it was wintry co!d. The chain-gang bosses say the Negroes stopped circulation in their feet when they padded their leg irons with rags and strings...
...altering bones, muscles, tendons. He cited a dozen cases to show what he meant. One of them concerned a Miss T. S. who suffered a severe attack of infantile paralysis when she was 5. When Dr. Truslow saw her eight years later, "she walked with two crutches, right leg decidedly knock-kneed and with a flexion deformity, 20° outward rotation of leg, right foot in equinovarus; moderate scoliosis...
...Truslow operated on her right shin bone, just below the knee, to correct the knock-knee, knee flexion and outward flexion of that leg...
...right ankle and a week later another operation stiffened her left ankle. Those operations corrected her club-footedness. But, although the deformities of the knee were overcome, the right knee "was practically flail." Determined to repair Miss T. S. to the utmost, Dr. Truslow stiffened her floppy right leg at the knee...