Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odium, has won the award twice before.* In 1939 she became the first of her sex to make a blind landing, set five national and two international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost a leg in a crash at sea as a Russian ace in World War I, is proudest of his feat in designing the first pursuit plane to exceed 300 m.p.h...
Seafaring men of Britain well know that no naval duty is so anonymous or so hard as life on a destroyer. A destroyer does not roll; she snaps. She does not pitch; she gallops. Food and drink for days on end is taken with an arm and a leg locked around a stanchion...
...Mobile, Ala., Negro Driver Carlton Gray knocked down five-year-old Jerry Richardson, broke his leg. With police hot in pursuit, Hit-&-Runner Gray jumped from his car, broke his own leg...
...bright North Carolina Negro, has been totally blind for 14 of his 32 years, totes a gun and has a good sense of direction. He says he "loves all the women in the world," and sounds that way when in his wailing, rackety voice he sings something like Big Leg Women Gets My Pay. Blind Boy is sometimes accompanied by his friend Sonny Terry, who is nearly blind, and whose noises on the harmonica, interspersed with incoherent shouts and screams, are some thing to hear...
First the doctors flexed the child's right knee, bound her forearm to her leg with adhesive tape and tied her hand over her foot. Then they cut her second toe two-thirds of the way around, so that it opened on a hinge of live tissue. Then they fitted the bones together so that the last joint and a half of the toe capped the second joint of the finger. Finally they peeled the skin off the finger tip and joined it to the cut end of the toe, carefully matching the tendons and stitching them together...