Word: legging
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...