Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Convicts are put in leg picks-two-foot iron bars locked over an ankle-for trying to escape, for failing to call Warden Clay "Captain," for no reason at all. The picks stay on night...
...Hunt's title at 6-3, 6-8, 10-8, 6-0. The new National Champion celebrated by collapsing. He had been rubbing off a Charley horse for most of the final set. Sick-stomached Kramer rushed over, gave Hunt's leg an extra rub-then gave up beside him on the grass...
...Franklin Roosevelt was looking for a U.S. ambassador of good will, he could have made no better selection. Indefatigable Eleanor Roosevelt attended receptions, teas, dinners, visited U.S. servicemen in hospitals and clubs, saw noted Pohutu Geyser at Rotorua, N.Z., autographed a wounded marine's leg bandage, got christened "Queen of the Great Democracy" by Maori chieftains, won friends and influenced people everywhere by her untiring kindness...
Katharine Cornell, on the porch of her home on Martha's Vineyard, heard a call for help, traced it to a ravine, where she found an Episcopal clergyman. Climbing there, he had brought a boulder down on him and broken his leg. Actress Cornell whipped up a makeshift splint, applied it to the ministerial leg, briskly bundled the cleric off to the hospital in her station wagon...
Barbara Bel Geddes, 20-year-old daughter of the futuristic designer, nabbed a movie contract, promptly started off on the right leg. When photographers greeted her with a demand for cheese cake, she measured up to the occasion by producing...