Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comely Nubian maidens, his brides. Priests led him through the chanting throng to one of four royal huts before which stood the sacred stool, Kwom. On the stool stood the image of Nyakang. While the proud Shilluks watched intently, Anei Kur seized the stool by one leg. The priests removed the image and Anei Kur was ret. He retired to a royal hut with his two wives. His people gorged themselves on oxmeat and heady merissa, brewed from millet...
They watched with interest as the uneasy inspection party tramped up the sandy hills of the tree-shaded slope where their camp is laid out, in the Choccolocco Mountains. When the visitors turned into a barracks there was a scramble within, a roared Achtung. A noncommissioned officer swung his leg, clicked his heels and flung his arm up in the Nazi salute (which the U.S. conducting officer acknowledged, American-style). Beside their cots blue-shirted prisoners stood stony-faced, rigidly at attention...
...Favorite sleeping position: on the stomach. About half of the women said they slept with an arm or leg hanging over the edge...
...restore a bleeding man's blood volume quickly, surgeons run plasma into the veins of both arms and one leg, salt solution and glucose into the other leg. Blood is substituted for plasma as soon as donors can be found...
...Judge (seven Western states, Alaska, Hawaii, China). Two-Term Senator Bone had certain renomination and election within his grasp, could he but campaign for it. But a fall in his Tacoma home in 1939 left him crippled; repeated operations had further impaired his health. For a year his right leg has been massaged daily by the Senate doctor. (Said Senator Bone dryly : "After all these years of having my leg pulled by amateurs, I'm having it pulled by an expert at last...