Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legged Leaper.JohannesAndries de Villiers. a 19-year-old sophomore at South Africa's Heidelberg Normal College, caused a sensation by high-jumping 5 ft. 7 in. in his first competitive try. He has no right leg. The handsome six-foot-one-incher started well back from the crossbar, hopped up momentum without his crutches, hurled himself over in a standard "western roll...
...Villiers lost his leg in a grain mower when he was five, bears a scar on his left leg from the same accident...
According to evidence in last week's Lancet, the new drug vivicillin (TIME, May 22) is not a good substitute for penicillin. The evidence (from a British military hospital): twelve cases of leg ulcers, carbuncles, boils, colitis, bacterial endocarditis, gonorrhea, septicemia which vivicillin failed to cure...
...head, dislocated his right shoulder and pulled several ligaments, fractured his right knee cap, busted two ribs on his left side, bloodied his nose while being scraped along the ground by his parachute. He fainted when he reported for duty, was operated on for an infection in his left leg, saw a major of the Canadian Parachutists get cut in two in mid-air and two boys drowned in the Chattahoochee River, passed his jumping, running, tumbling and jujitsu tests, was hospitalized twice in two weeks, jumped with a charge of TNT and crawled five miles through the woods...
...D.S.O., sociable, absent-minded son of one of Britain's top-flight diplomats (Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, now Ambassador to Portugal), was wounded and captured in the brilliant but unsuccessful 1941 raid on Field Marshal Rommel's headquarters in North Africa. Exchanged (because he had lost a leg), he summed up his prison-camp experience in an article for London's literary review Horizon, reprinted in Boston's June Atlantic Monthly...