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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the House Military Affairs Committee appeared Technical Sergeant Lemuel Hendricks of Council Bluffs, Iowa, whose left leg was blown off by a land mine in Tunisia. Veteran Hendricks told worried Congressmen a few things: soldiers are concerned about their future and "what Congress is doing for them"; unless they are cared for, there will be another bonus march. Leaning on his cane, Veteran Hendricks spoke with emphasis: "The men in the foxholes are beginning to wonder what they are fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cost | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...Cairo the Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek were the first to arrive, flying in from Chungking aboard a four-engined U.S. transport plane. Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, with their separate parties, traveled to Africa by ship, made the last leg of the trip by plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Big Parade | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...results of experiments on himself and 31 Mexican and Cuban volunteers, all of whom had been inoculated with material from pinta patients. Dr. Leon y Blanco gave the first play-by-play description of the disease's course. First a small, dark raised spot appears on a leg or arm (there may be several of these and they last for months without breaking the skin). Then a cluster of similar spots, which grow larger, form blotches some times as big or bigger than a 50? piece. On white people the blotches are pink, red or brown; on dark-skinned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pinta | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Breaks. Near Canon City, Colo., Lavenia Green was thrown by her horse, broke her leg, crawled five miles to her car, drove 35 miles to a hospital. In Portland, Ore., Paul H. Thorsen, treated for a broken bone in his knee, explained to hospital attendants that a girl friend had slipped and too abruptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 15, 1943 | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...first U.S. skin bank was operating last week in a jail. Charles ("Reds") McCullough, 20, who is serving 20 to 40 years in Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary for highway robbery, gave two big strips of leg skin to a little boy with bad burns around his knees. Daniel Dona hue (see cut), who last month gave skin for the second time to nine-year-old Evelyn Henderson, is serving life for murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Skinning Convicts | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

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