Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevent fatal blood clots from stopping up heart and lung arteries after operations, Boston's Dr. Arthur Wilburn Allen watches the big leg veins where the clots form and, when necessary, opens the veins, draws the clots out by suction before they can move on and do any harm, then ties off the veins. He uses this method on hundreds of cases a year, has greatly reduced deaths from embolism...
...Boston Red Sox; the major-league bidding for Dick Callahan, 19, prep-school pitcher-of-the-year in New Orleans. The winning bid: a $350-a-month contract plus a $15,000 bonus, biggest ever paid a prep-school recruit. Southpaw Callahan wears a brace on his left leg, the result of a fracture suffered in a game five years ago. The Navy gave him a medical discharge after seven months. For New Orleans' Holy Cross this season, he pitched 26 consecutive hitless innings, 86 strikeouts...
...Felt. The failure of communications could not dim the assault correspondents' heroism. The A.P.'s Henry B. Jameson was the first American newsman casualty. The craft he rode to France was offshore 14 hours, frequently under heavy fire. Hit in the shoulder and leg, Reporter Jameson was able to walk off smiling (see put). First killed: the British Exchange Telegraph's Arthur Thorpe, in a naval action...
Major General Norman T. Kirk, U.S. Army Surgeon General, went to Battle Creek, Mich, to pin the U.S.'s second highest honor on Chaplain Hoffmann, who is convalescing in Percy Jones General Hospital. He came unscathed through the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns, lost his left leg and suffered severe wounds in the fighting near Cassino...
...walked calmly up there through the hail of machine-gun bullets, and in a little while he came back carrying the wounded man. He got his captain's bars and Silver Star for that. Three days before he stepped on the mine [this cost him his leg], he came back one morning, telling everyone that the German gunners were wild shots. One of their mortars, he asserted, had missed him by seven feet. That's the way he was, laughing, joking and kidding around, but really getting things done, too. He could march right along with the toughest guys...