Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roller overturned, plowed up the pavement in a 9-ft. skid on its back, ground to a stop. Solt, his right leg bruised and his back sprained, crawled to the roller, closed the shut-off valve on the high-pressure fuel tank. Then he was carried home, to the six boys and four girls he had not forgotten...
...local draft boards have been rejected by the U. S. Army for physical defects. Recently an Army induction officer found a Chicago draftee with a glass eye. Growled the disgusted medico: "Some of these days one of these boys is going to come in here with a wooden leg...
Back to the U. S. from a three-and-a-half-month, 30,000-mile trip through Europe, the Near East and Africa came ruddy Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan last week. Colonel Donovan had been on an assignment that any professional reporter would have given his left leg to get. He had been in England under bombardment, in North Africa with the British Empire forces, in the Albanian mountains with the Greeks. He had inspected ordnance, shipping, signal corps, maintenance depots. He had slept in sleeping bags, on desert sands, on the jogging backs of mules...
...pinned his ears to the floor. He came back kicking and swinging; she treated him to a shoulder shrug, a slight wrist twist and a hip flip. Westgate sailed through the air. "Ooooo," said the audience. Detroit's toughest cop was taken to the hospital with a broken leg and twisted tendons. Said his remorseful wife: "I never wanted to learn those tricks. . . . I feel trembly and just awful. . . . I've never hurt him before. It was lack of wall space. I had no perspective in that big hall...
Ever since that momentous day when some psychologist discovered the Age of Adolescence and all its emotional trimmings, script artists and playwrights have done their wittiest to make America adolescent-conscious. Abby Merchant's "Your Loving Son", now on the middle leg of a summer theatre to Boston to New York itinerary, deals with adolescence of the precocious variety, the worldly-wise 16-year old boy whose teeming brain and sturdy hand carries the grown-ups through crisis after crisis. Despite a rather obvious lack of inspiration displayed by the author in mediocre lines and a transparent plot, "Your Loving...