Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere on the high seas two U-boats caught an Allied merchant vessel and surfaced to shell it. A high-explosive burst hit squarely on the bridge. Captain Arthur William Folster, of Durban, South Africa, collapsed on his deck, riddled with shell fragments, his right arm and left leg torn...
...from other Hollywood producers, Joan Harrison, 34, tilts one blonde eyebrow, grins, and replies, "I use my sex.;' When, against Universal's better judgment, she became a Universal producer, the studio sent around a photographer to immortalize the event. "Well," snapped Miss Harrison, "do you want some leg art?" (see cut). Besides using a pair of ah-inspiring legs, she also uses a mind trained at the Sorbonne, at Oxford, and by England's shrewdest director...
...went to Berlin. The streets were putrid with uncollected garbage. Unter den Linden was cluttered with war cripples who hobbled along as best they could, made imploring gestures, or "crouched against the cold, damp walls as though ashamed for the stranger to see their distorted leg and arm stumps, their dead eyes, or their faces scarred almost beyond recognition. . . ." The Germans were savage. They spat whenever the name of Matthias Erzberger, who signed the Armistice, was mentioned...
...hear their Confessions. There's no easy job in this chaplain's work. One of my classmates . . . once said that the job of saving souls is like trying to catch snowflakes in a tin cup. It's still tougher in the Army. ..." And the Leg Work? "I get the impression from [you] that just because we Jesuits are going to be identified with the Reconstruction of the Social Order that the job is half finished. We are five thousand strong, aren't we? I get the impression that we are going to do all tour work...
Toward Independence. When such a patient begins to depend on the psychiatrist and accept him as a "supporting presence," he is likely to lose the outward signs of his neurosis-a stiff leg, deafness, forgetfulness, phobia. But if the psychiatrist neglects him or ships him off too soon to another station where he gets some thoughtless rebuff, the neurotic symptom will return. Bad news from home sometimes causes a relapse. "Time is necessary for the patient . . . to test the human environment's sincerity. . . . The Army is not conducive to such testing...