Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francis Schmidt, 58, fast-talking, hard-driving football coach of Ohio State's 1939 "razzle-dazzle" Big Ten champions; after long illness; in Spokane, Wash. He once spurred his Buckeyes to a long-sought victory with a classic locker-room line: "Michigan boys put on their pants one leg at a time same...
Apparently no Japs defended the Morotai beaches. Only U.S. casualty: an officer who broke his leg...
Cockpit to Prison. His left leg was broken and punctured by an ack-ack burst. His back was terribly burned by raw gasoline. The foot of his injured leg was pinned rigidly under the rudder...
When they finally laid him tenderly onto the canvas litter and straightened his left leg you could see the tendons relax and his facial muscles subside, and he gave a long half-groan, half-sigh of relief...
...lost 65 Ibs. when he got rheumatic fever in the New Hebrides. He has his weight back now, but is still too weak to turn over in bed without help, let alone take regular gym exercises. He has to try them anyway. Frank Scares, 35, lost his right leg at Oran when somebody fumbled a souvenir German grenade. When Scares' gym instructor recently asked him to skip rope, he managed three jumps, then fainted...