Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Focke-Wulf s attacked him and Pilot Officer Richard Lewis while they were harrying a Nazi steamer. One of the Focke-Wulfs riddled Finucane's plane and wounded him in the leg and thigh. By radio he ordered Lewis to run for home. Lewis disobeyed. He hovered behind Finucane's tail, fought off repeated Focke-Wulf attacks. One of the Focke-Wulfs crashed into the Channel. Finucane and Lewis scurried back to their home airdrome. Squadron Leader Finucane taxied his fighter up to the line and then collapsed at the controls...
Carolyn Wells, thriller-manufacturer (81 mysteries in 33 years), slipped on a rug in her Manhattan apartment, broke her right leg, right arm. "This is nothing new," she reported. "I've had seven breaks...
...black week for the U.S. female leg. Du Pont announced tersely that, "because of demand for military purposes," nylon would no longer be sold on contract but on a spot basis (i.e., if there was any to sell). That meant that hosiery makers would get no nylon. They had long since stopped getting silk...
...decided on the arm, and not the leg, in order to be spared the bother of shaving my new upper lip. We chose a piece of skin bounded on one side by a vaccination mark and on the other by the faint scar of what are now my upper lids." Thus in January 1941, back again in hospital four months after he had been brought down in flames, ex-Spitfire Fighter Hillary confronted his personal problem of post-war reconstruction. For Richard Hillary the war was over...
...Injury has finally taken his toll of the Crimson forces. Johnny Paine, first line wing, has ben out for a week with a leg infection, but he is expected back in action tonight. His center, Gordy McGrath, suffered a charley horse against R. U., but he, too, apparently is ready...