Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...terrorism. The list was more notable for length than for accuracy. Most impressive of the checkable acts was the 1932 bombing of a reviewing stand in Shanghai after a parade in honor of Japan's Emperor: General Yoshinori Shirakawa lost his life, Minister to China Mamoru Shigemitsu his leg and Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura his right eye. Author of that bombing was one In Hokichi. As for most other Korean terrorists, their aim was no better than Park Soowon...
This posed a problem for Getulio, who had a very soft spot in his heart for his oldtime friend. Besides, Pedro Ernesto had saved the leg of Senhora Vargas when it was crushed in an automobile accident and other surgeons wanted to amputate. Vargas' Minister of War ordered Pedro Ernesto imprisoned, but he was taken to the Military Police Hospital instead of the jail. When it was announced that visitors might call on Pedro Ernesto, a long line of friends queued up at the hospital's door; next to a bemedaled general stood an old Negro woman from...
Busybody. In Baltimore, within ten days, three-year-old Joe DeAngelis broke his leg, cut it, got seven stitches in it, tangled his left foot in his tricycle wheel, got eight stitches in it, fell off a table and fractured his arm, broke a glass and stepped on it with his right heel, got seven more stitches, was then...
...Party, whose 400,000 votes have been the decisive Democratic margin in New York since 1936, has announced that it will put its own candidate in the field rather than support the lukewarm Mr. Bennett. This move will split the Democratic vote like a meat cleaver through a chicken-leg...
...them was turned down twice by the Army because he had been sitting at a desk too long, so he swung a pick for 18 months in a construction gang and got into the Navy. They were just Americans, with a ready wisecrack, an eye for a pretty leg, a nostalgia for the corner drugstore at home and an idea that they wanted to be somebody someday...