Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...county jail at Lawton, Okla., a man charged with embezzlement passed the time by hacking away his wooden leg with a razor. To questioners, he retorted shortly: "It's mine...
...fourth leg, said the President, would be "a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available" to the world's "underdeveloped areas." It would make U.S. technical skills available, and would assist local capital with U.S. investments. It was not "the old imperialism-exploitation for foreign profit. It must be a world-wide effort for the achievement of peace, plenty and freedom...
Porter knew no real struggle until he was 45, and at the peak of success. Then he undertook a gallant and successful fight to walk again, after a Long Island horseback-riding accident left him with compound fractures of both legs. Winning this fight took 31 operations (mostly to clear up a bone infection of his right leg), years of constant pain, and a tough-minded courage that surprised his friends and impressed his physician...
Roger Wach's strained leg muscle is on the mend and he will probably be ready for Army. If not, Shapiro or Bob Abboud, who took Wach's place at Columbia, will handle the 136-pound duties. Bob Claffin is a reliable 175-pounder and heavyweight Howle Houston is picking up more and more wrestling know-how to go along with his tremendous strength and cat-like reflexes. He should be able to hold his own against the rest of the heavyweight opposition...
Merely Bored. In Pralognan, France, police jailed Léopold Dupont, who had taken careful aim with his carbine, scored a bull's-eye on a passing pedestrian's wooden leg...