Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vero Beach, ten miles away, for help. Captain O'Brien was still flying the plane through that morning's murderous thunderstorm. "Come on, Mac," he mumbled, "help me pull this wheel-we've got to get altitude." His copilot, B. M. Crabtree, had a broken leg. He sat cheerfully and waited...
...their patients the doctors chose two women (one aged 70) with broken arms, and a young girl with a fractured leg. For many weeks their shattered limbs had hung like broken branches. The doctors gave them injections of the hormone theelin three times a week. Within a short time their bones began to "bud," and the jagged edges finally grew together...
...When you open Pepys you get one leg on the flypaper at once and it is hard to get away...
...backs are fast and most of them have worked together for three springs. Former girdiron captain Bobbie Green and Marsh Holleb can be expected to show plenty of shifty and speedy maneuvering in the afternoon's workout, ably supported by "battering ram" Muddy Waters, who is on the last leg of a colorful five years of Harvard rugby. To add to the star-studded lineup, Tommy Mountain, a Princeton football great, will do his share of kicking and running...
Last week Negro James Brown, 25, appeared before the wary officer. Brown's draft board had given him a clean bill of health except for the notation: "Enlarged tonsils." Told to strip, he took his trousers off, revealed an artificial leg...