Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free foreclaw, was quickly caught and held helpless. Thereafter for a while the battle was even. Each a prisoner of the other, neither could get into position to unleash the poison which would end the fight. On the fourth day the spider tore loose, but it cost her one leg, part of another. Spectators raised the odds to 20-to-1. Like a Gulliver bound with Lilliputian strands, the scorpion struggled until its forelegs were swollen and paralyzed. Finally in a burst of desperate frenzy it freed its stinger from the silken web, got within an inch of the terrified...
...country, as a matter of fact, elected the two Roosevelt families to the Presidency, and they have so consolidated and taken over the best principles in both parties that the opposition has not a leg to stand upon...
...With forceps he pulled at the mass. It came loose, a strange-looking something the size of a plum. Surgeon Sweet paused several seconds while the Negro artist sketched the "tumor" and cavity, then tossed the "growth" into a catch basin, reamed the cavity in Warden Lawes's leg, put in a drain and some stitches, and was done...
...medical scholar, Dr. Sweet at once started to dissect the plum-sized mass. Instead of a fleshy knot, he unwrapped a tightly wadded gauze sponge left in Warden Lawes's leg during the rupture operation six years before...
Last week, still limping from a broken leg, Joseph Patrick Kennedy had to leave his pleasant home and his big family to journey to Washington, no summer resort. There the chairman of the SEC was to deliver a long-awaited speech on the policies of his potent body?a speech which would be an authoritative definition of the Administration's attitude toward the financial community...