Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China's new Premier, Sun Fo, stepped gingerly from a shiny black Packard at the entrance to Nanking's green-tiled Executive Yuan one morning last week. Leaning on a cane to take the weight off his left leg, from which a two-pound tumor had recently been removed, he limped up three flights of stairs to an unheated conference room,'where his cabinet waited formally to assume office...
...imitate the stroke he had never seen. The Australian crawl was such a sensational step forward that some kind of American imitation was inevitable; other Americans besides Jam Handy tried their own adaptations. The U.S. style that finally emerged combined the double over-arm stroke with a loose-leg kick from the hips instead of the knees. Using it, Handy won three national free-style championships...
...Fort Lauderdale, Fla., at an annual clinic of 250 college swimming coaches, hale and hardy Handy jumped into a pool to demonstrate his new "twintail" crawl. Instead of kicking his legs alternately and steadily, he gave them turns. While the left leg took three kicks to one arm stroke, the right leg dragged with only a slight relaxed flutter; then the left one dragged while the right one kicked three times. The crowd cheered Handy's demonstration, but most coaches were a little skeptical. Handy was sure that time would vindicate him. Said he: "When I was younger...
Blood Pressure. Three weeks ago Chiang had appointed as Premier Sun Fo, son of the great Sun Yatsen. Sun Fo last week was recovering from a leg operation and suffering from high blood pressure. He had not slept for nights. He had invited leader after leader to serve in his cabinet. None wanted to share the responsibility of continuing the war. After Paul Hoffman's Shanghai press conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Sun Fo went to Chiang with the proposal that the new cabinet be given Chiang's permission to seek a deal with the Communists that would...
Said a headline in Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror last week: KING'S ILLNESS is REPORTED LESS CRITICAL. The story went on to say that the British Press Association had denied on "highest authority" that a leg amputation would be necessary. "The earlier denial," the story concluded, "was occasioned by an exclusive story in the New York Mirror...