Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treatment of men who have lost an arm or a leg has improved enormously since World War I. Then, training and fitting were so incomplete that many casualties soon threw their artificial limbs away because they were too uncomfortable. This time the Army's brisk, blue-eyed Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk (whose book, Amputations, is a surgeon's bible) got six special amputation centers started before the heavy flow of amputation cases began. He believes that with good care, and civilian understanding, no crippled veteran need think of selling pencils on street corners. Good care includes good...
Each step requires long, patient, often exasperating practice. For a man who has lost an arm, even walking may be difficult at first, because of the change in his body balance. But the first day is made a thrilling occasion; when a man with an artificial leg is ready to walk without crutches or cane, the hospital staff and his fellow patients gather round, turn on music, applaud his first solo steps and his surprised, delighted smile...
...lanky Cliff Wharton who really broke up the race, taking over from Tuttle on the third leg, and on a flying exchange of batons, building up a 20 yard lead, as he turned in a blazing 52.1 quarter. Anchor man for the Crimson, Bob Clark, set a blinding pace himself, in increasing the lead to almost 50 yards before tying up near the end and relinquishing all but the original 20 yard advantage...
Leading off for Mikkola in the mile relay will be Hugh de Fries, who recently copped the 600 at Tufts. He will be followed by F. S. Steinbauer, Cliff Wharton in the number three spot, and finally Bob Clark, running the anchor leg for the Crimson...
What a country! George found that he could not sleep on the grass in the park because of the police, but the park benches were free. Yet there were iron armrests every two feet along the benches. "How could I distribute myself under them? I tried one leg. Then the other. But when I was under, how could I turn around?" To passersby, George said, "How many clock?" They showed him the time. "Rapidly, if one applies oneself," George reflected, "one speaks the English...