Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue & white flag of Greece. They cheered until Britain's tall, immaculate Minister Sir Charles Michael Palairet came out on the balcony. Some among them retold the old saw about the time when Sir Charles skied over a Rumanian precipice and was found hours later with his leg broken, his monocle still in place. Just like the plucky British, they said...
...Jersey, the last leg of the great political caravan, he had ridden into Elizabeth with confetti from New Brunswick still in his hair. He was the same confident Wendell Willkie who had said before his nomination: "I am the cockiest fellow you ever saw." Saturday noon, the train had rolled into Penn Station in New York City, and stopped at last. That night, more than 22,000 supporters jammed Madison Square Garden in the most tremendous rally veteran reporters had ever seen, and Willkie raised his arms, to receive an ovation that transcended everything that had gone before...
There are five different ways to break a leg. They range all the way from a "greenstick" fracture, where the bone is cracked half through and split longitudinally, to a compound fracture, where the shattered bone juts through the skin. No matter what the break, treatment is always the same: first setting and immobilization, then proper exercise...
...Griswold's treatment, called "double pin skeletal fixation," is painless, but it looks bad. First a patient's leg is anesthetized. Then two long steel pins, one-eighth of an inch thick, are hammered through the leg, above and below the fracture. A small steel mallet is used, and the pins are driven directly through flesh & bone, protruding about an inch on either side...
Next, the leg is set in a "Griswold machine"-a 20th-century model of the rack. The pins are connected on both sides to a kind of caliper and the leg is gently stretched until the two broken ends snap into place. While a surgeon "reduces" the fracture, his assistant watches the bone through a fluoroscope to make sure the ends are fitted. The leg stays in the machine...