Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another ward they watched a movie. Leg patients clapped their hands; arm patients whistled. A bawdy revue, written, produced and staged by patients and staff members had been playing in the park's Old Globe Theater. Its title: Keep 'em in Stitches. Raucous audiences happily applauded such parodies as Corpsman, Keep Those Bedpans Quiet...
When he was seated inside the car the old man slapped his leg. "Yes, sir," he said, "this is fine." He recognized the grizzled porter, Lawrence Ervin, as he stepped up with a bottle of bonded bourbon. Said the old man, "Hello there, boy. How are you coming along? Glad to see you. Put a little branch water in there, son, yes sir. Harry, I never felt better in my life. I'll be 76 next month and I'm gonna live to 93. I get to bed early-and I still drink whiskey. Couldn't live...
During the 76 hours of violent battle at Tarawa last November the Marines' beachhead commander, 39-year-old Colonel David M. Shoup, of Battle Ground, Indiana, carefully concealed a painful fact: as he waded ashore his leg had been pierced by a shell fragment. For that wound, indestructible, broad-beamed Colonel Shoup received his second Purple Heart (he had been wounded before by a bomb at New Georgia...
Their first big success came in 1940, when they operated on a 16-year-old boy with a weak, wasted lower leg and foot. Through an incision in the calf, they crushed the nerve above the point where it was damaged. Two months later, motion and feeling began to return to the foot. Eventually the boy regained full power in all the affected muscles and his treated leg again measured the same as the other...
...German colonel, apparently assigned just before the siege to hold Calais as long as possible, soon turned up with his staff. They were smartly uniformed, but one officer had a wooden leg, another only one arm. Colonel Schroeder stiffly saluted his adversary. Said he, referring to the anomaly of a truce: "This is like something out of Alice in Wonderland...