Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjusted his oxygen mask. Outside he could hear the thunder of the B-29's great engines and feel the vibration as the bomber climbed higher & higher. He felt it wheel on a turn, and heard Major Cardenas' voice on the radio: "Am turning on downwind leg at 21,000 ft." Then the bomber wheeled again. "Am turning on the base leg," said Major Cardenas. "Five minutes to drop time...
American aid had rescued the country from bankruptcy-and close on bankruptcy's heels had lurked dictatorship, not necessarily Communist, but certainly of harsh totalitarian economic control. Now France, in effect, had one leg in the emergency ward and one in the convalescent ward. It was Bruce's immediate job to get France entirely out of the first and into the second...
Line of Duty. In Jacksonville, Judge Edwin L. Jones fined Nightclub Bouncer W. W. Standfield $350, ruled that Standfield had a right to toss a customer out of the joint, but that shooting him in the leg was going...
...from grumpless; if it had been, it wouldn't have been a Toscanini rehearsal or resulted in a Toscanini performance. Once, when a singer yelped on an entrance, the tireless little tyrant roared in his hoarse, drama-ridden voice: "No! NO!" then stood speechless, slapping his leg with his baton, trying to suppress what he calls his "bad character." Once, dripping-wet in his black alpaca rehearsal coat, the maestro stopped the brassy triumphal march: "No! Not for the dead. For the living, for the living...
Bloom's cadavers have not sold as well as his other work, but he is optimistic about the eventual market, after the first shock wears off. One customer has been Author Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens), who bought an amputated leg with a gangrenous foot, hung it on his dining-room wall...