Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman's leg and the bright blue garter that vanished from Kirkland House last October were returned yesterday to their rightful owners, Joel Rome '51 and Stuart Falk...
...child may have one leg shorter than the other because of injury, disease, or accident of growth. Whatever the cause, the cure has puzzled surgeons. They have tried various methods of evening up the legs-from shortening the long leg to lengthening the short one. Recently doctors have been trying to slow, without entirely stopping, the growth of the longer leg. But the timing is tricky and the methods have been clumsy...
...convention. So many doctors were jotting down notes that the crowded green and gold grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House looked like a classroom. Dr. Blount's method: using stainless steel staples with ¾ inch prongs to retard growth of the longer leg...
...minor operation, the staples are driven into the long bones of the leg above and below the knee, near the joint, where the bone grows longer. There is no need to try to figure out the exact time when the child's growth will end, Dr. Blount explained. The staples do not keep the leg from growing, but they slow the process. When the short leg has caught up, and the child walks without a limp, the staples are taken out, and both legs can grow at once. The staples may be kept in place as long...
...wagon during a sandstorm. The crooks, all 15-minute eggs, immediately begin quaking with spasms of oldtime religion, secondhand paternal pride and firsthand conscience. One of the godfathers (Harry Carey Jr.) dies from exhaustion and a slight wound he picked up in the robbery. Another (Pedro Armendariz) breaks a leg and has to shoot himself. That leaves John Wayne and Baby; Mother has been decently buried after a mawkish death scene...