Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shanghai's Hongkew Park, a Korean patriot threw a bomb at a review stand filled with Japanese officials. Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) lost a leg; Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, later Ambassador to Washington, lost...
Shigemitsu aged, became sallow and bitter. He met one-legged U.S. Author Ellery Walter, who had mastered the use of his artificial leg so perfectly that casual observers never suspected he had it. Shigemitsu took an envious liking to Walter, learned from him how to use a wooden leg...
...Island's traditional Derby preview. Few days before, in a tune-up race (his 1943 debut) on a sloppy track, he had proved that he could run in any kind of going. This time, against the cream of the three-year-old crop and despite a gashed hind leg, he really showed his class. From the time he entered the backstretch, where he overtook Blue Swords, his chief rival, he made the race a runaway. His time (1:43 flat) was only f of a second slower than the track record for a mile-and-a-sixteenth...
...Breen: "Mrs. Murphy said here yesterday that [she] thought she would commence on Milt and eat him." She had. At the Donner family huts, Tamsen Donner had just sent a man to beg Elizabeth, Jacob Donner's wife, for a meal. The man was just returning with a leg of Elizabeth's husband. "At the sight of the rescuers, he tossed the now unneeded leg back on the butchered corpse." Jacob Donner's children "were sitting upon a log, with their faces stained with blood, devouring the half roasted liver and heart of the[ir] father. . . ." None...
...mass consumption may be justly shied away from in peace-time but is unjustly feared under unusual war conditions. Compulsory saving also might be weighed thoughtfully, if not tried. It too gets at the heart of inflation, and does not merely slow down the circulation in one arm or leg...