Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slender beachhead every 30 seconds. Colonel Crowe covered his chest wound with his poncho, covered his face with his helmet. A shell fragment tore through the poncho, pierced his chest in two more places. Five other fragments hit him in the left arm and shoulder, another in the right leg. A sliver tore off his thumbnail. A doctor who examined him said, "Not much chance...
...80th ("Blue Ridge,") Infantry Division got to the top, there was little need to fight. The place was strewn with enemy dead and smashed guns. Some anti-aircraft guns were captured intact with their crews. Among the prisoners was one man with a glass eye, one with a wooden leg, two with self-inflicted wounds...
...unwelcome in Brooklyn as the New York Giants: Brooklynites had discovered that his new book, Middle East Diary (TIME. Nov. 6), made frightened men of Brooklyn soldiers. Wrote Coward: "I was less impressed by . . . mournful little Brooklyn boys ... in tears . . . with nothing worse than a bullet wound in the leg or a fractured...
...start toward celluloid when Matinee Idol Gary Grant, a warm admirer of Novelist Richard Llewellyn's works, told RKO's Executive Producer Charles Koerner that he wanted to play the novel's pimply, adolescent, Cockney hero, Ernie Mott. It got a propitious leg-up when young Producer David Hempstead called in Clifford Odets to do the screen play. It got itself and Hollywood a new and gifted director when Odets took on that job, too. For still more luster, Producer Hempstead-and the script-enticed Ethel Barrymore back into pictures...
...wife and son, $7,000 which he invested in war bonds. Twice he saved Martin and Morris from being sent overseas by having them temporarily transferred to his own unit. In January, Radovich himself went overseas (though he had to persuade his commanding officer to overlook a minor leg injury) and played a hero's role in the CBI until his conscience overtook...