Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Perkins, the boy who made the Harlow T formation work last Saturday, will be on the sidelines tomorrow because of a leg injury, and with that news Tufts became an overwhelming favorite in its first visit to Soldiers Field...
...Americans speak of first and second joints of chicken because it was once impolite to use the word leg. It was also bad taste to mention the breast of a chicken - hence white and dark meat...
...bridge, Executive Officer Roosevelt saw a gunner whose pants were rolled up, told him to get them down to avoid flash burns from enemy fire. The gunner had a bead on a bomber and could not comply; so Roosevelt unrolled one pants leg for him. At that moment a bomb fragment removed the gunner's other leg; Roosevelt suffered a slight hand wound. Big Pancho gave the gunner morphine, applied a tourniquet, lugged him below to sick bay. Says Reynolds: His crew worship the guy. They say he's terrific in combat...
...Most parachute injuries are leg fractures and ankle sprains. Captain William J. Tobin of Fort Benning reported that since the adoption last June of a new technique of landing with both feet together instead of shoulder-width apart (the old technique-see cut), parachute injuries have dropped from 1.54% to 1%. In 250,000 jumps since July 1940, there have been only nine deaths...
...stood up as he sat down to chow at their tuble ONE day...the crackling sound of Bill Acker's voice after a particularly long session of "hip-toop-threep-fourping"...the blood-in-the-eye look of the tall, grizzled E. O. Homan when he thinks his leg has been pulled a little too hard....remember...