Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Infantry in barracks; military hospital near by. Visits from Japanese doctors three times a week. Monthly inspection. Fifteen wounded in infirmary of whom seven wounded by bombs and one had leg amputated above the knee. All getting along well. No dead. American dentist wants to practice...
...team remains as unknown quantity, having played no contests to date. It is reputed, however, to be a hard-hitting rookie outfit, with centerfielder Captain Charlie Thomas the only member of the starting lineup to face the Crimson last year. Slugging rightfielder Carl Erickson has been benched with a leg injury received in football last fall...
...limped badly from a piece of shrapnel in his thigh, a souvenir of the Battle of the Java Sea. The doctor had forbidden him to leave the ship, but he hadn't been ashore for nine months. After a couple of highballs he had to leave because the leg hurt so badly, but before leaving he told his story: since the war started in '39, he had had seven ships shot out from under him, and the last time only 40 of his 300-man crew got away. As he started to go, with pain written deeply...
Washington said nothing. But Admiral Darlan's claim that Vichy-U.S. relations were improving was backed up by positive Vichy action. It was revealed that a German submarine stopped last month at Fort-de-France, Martinique, and landed an officer with a gangrenous leg who badly needed a hospital. The U.S. Government immediately demanded that Vichy forbid the Axis the use of French Western Hemisphere ports, for any purpose whatever. Last week Vichy promised...
...Lady Has Plans (Paramount) was apparently conceived as an excuse for undressing Paulette Goddard. It requires her (a radio leg-woman) to be mistaken for a pretty spy who has a U.S. military secret inscribed on her back in invisible...