Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the chairman of the Long Beach (Calif.) collection committee: "Next thing I expect to see is an aluminum leg." Next thing he saw was an aluminum leg, donated by a one-legged veteran of World...
...France, was in London during the worst bombardments. The wheeze of his laughter was never stilled whether he was jaunting in Ireland, following the British in North Africa and Ethiopia, or covering a sea battle in the Mediterranean. He decided it was time to come home when his leg was crushed after a mob of excited Egyptians in Cairo pushed him from a train during an air raid...
...looting, calm and frantic murder; a soldier trying on some fancy drawers he stole for his wife, catching his big toe in the lace; peasants shyly examining a bullet-pocked plane as it exhales its metal odors in a meadow; a lame, derelict Cossack bandit dancing with his longer leg in a hole; Gregor's dead father, with warlice sheeting his face...
...removed. Presumably the U.S. will soon begin to convoy to Reykjavik. There the British Navy can take over and convoy Lend-Lease goods the rest of the way to Britain. If this takes place it will enable the British to concentrate their convoy vessels on the last leg of the haul. The inevitable result: much lower mortality among British merchantmen, much higher mortality among U-boats. Add to this the fact that Reykjavik can now serve as a base for U.S. naval patrols, particularly air patrols, as far as the coast of Norway, and the U.S. occupation of Iceland...
...head was jerked back and water was poured into my nostrils. . . . Next they strapped me into the 'tiger's chair'-an ordinary chair anchored to the floor. Bricks were placed under my feet and piled up one by one. As each brick stretched my taut leg muscles farther, the agony became unbearable. I fainted seven times within 40 minutes. . . . They gave me what they called the 'electric punishment.' I was forced to grasp two electrally charged tubes and the voltage was gradually stepped up. Every inch ofm y body trembled like jelly. I felt...