Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nurses. In the winter he had to travel by dog team over wastes of "slob" ice and huge sheets of smooth "whelping ice." Once he drifted out to sea on a pan of ice, had to kill three of his dogs and use their skins for blankets, their leg bones as a staff for a makeshift flag...
...news of yesterday's football practice was the appearance of Captain Joe Gardella at the tailback spot in the place of Sophomore Don McNicol, ruled out of the Michigan game with a leg many. Joe has had previous Varsity experience at tailback and should be able to make the switch without much trouble. This move leaves the fullback position a wide-open scrap between Bill Brown and Mort Waldstein...
...town. During the night they tried several times to effect a landing on Rufisque beach across the bay, but each time machine-gun fire drove them back. The commander of the supporting British squadron threatened attack unless the town gave in. Governor General Pierre Boisson, who lost a leg fighting the Germans in 1917, signaled in reply: "France has confided Dakar to me, and I shall defend it to the end." British guns spoke. Their conversation touched the Governor General's house, the town radio station (so that for several hours Vichy heard nothing), the French and native cities...
...pensive stranger stood gazing into the depths of a trout hatchery. When fish became scarcer, mystified officials first scratched their heads, then broke in on the stranger's waterside musings. Through a hole in his pocket he was dangling a line, pulling his catch through a pants leg...
...Brooklyn, John Coveleskie lay snoozing serenely on a sidewalk. When a policeman awakened him, Catnapper Coveleskie seized the officer's gun, took hasty but sleepy aim, pinked himself in the leg...