Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...either take it or you'll lose the leg...
Lawson told Doc White, "For Christ's sake, take the leg...
...given a spinal shot. He saw the doctor's arm moving, his own leg lifted, the blood vessels tied off. Four times Lawson looked at the silver saw in White's hand. He could hear the teeth cutting through thicker and thinner parts...
...Then there was an almost musical twink, and deep, deep silence inside me." He watched one nurse take hold of an ankle, another nurse take hold of the thick end, saw them carry a leg out of the door...
Died. Dr. Richard ("Diamond Dick") Tanner, 73, onetime pistol prodigy; of complications resulting from a broken leg; in Norfolk, Neb. From 16 to 35, Dick amazed Wild West show audiences (including "Buffalo Bill" Cody's) with a brace of pearl-handled .44s. In 1909 he got his M.D., practiced in Norfolk for 15 years before neighbors knew they were being treated by the old pal of "Calamity Jane" and "Pawnee Bill...