Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policy of tariff-making by the President and State Department would mean a new and vast trade war. Opposed to the bill, Senator Key Pittman (Dem., Nev.) insisted that all trade agreements should have the approval of two-thirds of the Senate. Only disturbance occurred when a chair leg collapsed, dumped surprised Senator McCarran (Dem., Nev.) on the floor...
...valet, a collection of pipes, a golf score in the 80s, an Oscar, the authorship of three nationally popular songs, a guitar, saxophone and two pianos, a set of stooges including two U. S. C. football players, a kiss from Bette Davis, a crown from Ed Sullivan, a broken leg, 80 chickens, three turkeys, three ducks, three geese, six canaries and a parrot...
Cutler will enter the 220 and 440, in addition to swimming a leg in the 400-yard relay. The other three members of that foursome will be Jim Curwen. Lonnie Stowell, Frannie Powers, and Art Bosworth. Curwen is also entered...
...committees, threw binges, sponsored concerts, balls, dinners, benefits, theatricals; debutantes carried jingling boxes through night clubs, collected from workmen; bankers put coin-boxes by their wickets. For their Fatherland and for fun, old Finn Record-Miler Paavo Nurmi and young Finn Record-Two-Miler Taisto Maki finished tuning their leg-muscles to watchspring fineness, began junketing over the U. S., through subways, a strange language, strange food, one-night stands. Their goal: benefit funds for Finland. Finland was the fashion...
Teaming behind the blue line will be Captain Coleman and Sherm Gray, who probably will have to spend much of the tilt on the sidelines because of a game leg, while Greeley Summers, George Dreher, and Emmet Whitlock are alternate defensemen...