Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie Cabot will be at shortstop for the third game in a row, since Henry Young the usual starter is still in Stillman Infirmary with a leg infection...
...democracy, statesmen go on vacation, break a leg, get the flu and even retire or die without creating more than a mild flurry of editorial comments or oratorical farewells. But Communist leaders in their world behind the Iron Curtain fare differently. Because so little information about their lives is allowed to leak out, Red bigwigs can scarcely go away for a country weekend without creating a storm of speculation-on either side of the Curtain-that they have been purged, exiled or demoted in disgrace...
...apparently wandered into the swamp while feeding. Their enormous feet were fine defensive weapons (the far smaller South American rheas have been known to kick a mule to death), but were no good for bogtrotting. As they sank, the birds kicked and struggled; skeletons have been found with one leg raised as though in a last, despairing kick...
...outcome of the freshman track team's meet against Rhode Island State this afternoon may depend on the condition of Dave Cairns' injured leg...
...ninth mission, Chuck and his Glamourous Glennis of that day were shot down by three Messerschmitts over occupied France. After bailing out with a leg wound, he spotted an old Frenchman, chopping wood, who looked trustworthy. Chuck introduced himself in West Virginia English. The Frenchman put him in touch with the underground, which smuggled him by painful night marches over the Spanish border. Franco's Spaniards put Chuck and some pals in jail...