Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only consolation we have is that, so far as we could tell, she did not suffer much. My sister came off worse than any of us. She was thrown against the fire and could not move until they got her out after two or three hours. Both legs were very badly burnt; one had to be amputated, but they are trying to save the other. The doctor told Dad it was getting on slowly but as the bone was burnt in one place, it would be a very long job. They are now talking of a skin-graft...
...limestone. Under them, the ebony coffin in which the conqueror lay in robes " of gold brocade. Except for the head, the skeleton was well-preserved in musk and rose water, and the scientists discovered that philology was right (Tamerlane comes from Timur Leuk, meaning Timur the Lame) : his right leg was shorter than his left. With him were buried two sons and his astronomer grandson, Ulugh...
...three taxi drivers, was led off gesticulating by airline officials. >> General John J. Pershing, 80, lay ill of age's infirmities in Walter Reed Hospital. >> Eugene Meyer lost his well-kept temper when his plane hit a storm, a tray-bearing stewardess hit the floor, and a chicken leg came to rest on his trim grey head. >> John L Lewis' maid refused to sit in a Jim Crow seat, got arrested, said "Mr. Lewis will fix you for this." >> Representative Clare Hoffman (R., Mich.) asked that "applause" (to his speech) be stricken from the Congressional Record "because there...
Several times a day, Sister Kenny flexes the patient's arm or leg "through the range of motion possible without pain." As pain is reduced, the exercises are increased. By the time the first, contagious stage of the disease is over, all pain and stiffness are usually relieved. Treatment is continued twice a day until the patient finally learns to move again under his own power...
...leading editors, who secretly despises the regime, nudged me: 'Look at his walk!' On inspection it was a very curious walk indeed. In the first place, it was very ladylike. Dainty little steps. In the second place, every few steps he cocked his shoulder nervously, his left leg snapping up as he did so. ... And now I understand the meaning of an expression the party hacks were using when we sat around drinking in the Dreesen last night. They kept talking about the 'Teppichfresser,' 'the carpet-eater.' . . . They said Hitler has been having some...