Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henderson is known to her friends as Betty and to the public as the woman who put a 71-year-old leg up on a table in the Metropolitan Opera bar last fall. The divorce was a young friend's-handsome John Alden Talbot Jr., whose wife had taken umbrage at his public attentions to Lana Turner. Betty Henderson liked the young man, and wanted to give him a party...
...Tinker, sputtery holler guy of baseball's immortal Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance, confined to a wheel chair since his left leg was amputated 18 months ago, entered an Orlando, Fla. nursing home for "closer supervision of his diet...
Jane Cowl, fluttery, hankie-flapping veteran of 37 stage years, who had had some trouble with a backing taxi in Manhattan last winter (broken leg), had more of the same with a station wagon in La Jolla, Calif.; as it rounded a curve she fell out the door, suffered a banged head, cut arm, skinned knee. Two days later she was back at rehearsal for a straw-hat performance of The First Mrs. Fraser...
...kings issued a joint statement in the same vein: no compromise. But on the next leg of his journey, to visit his nephew Regent Abdul Illah of Iraq, Abdullah dropped a hint to the Arab press to stop the chest-thumping which makes compromise impossible. Said Abdullah: "The significant feature of the situation is not so much a matter of the Arab states being against the Jews but rather against the supporters of world Jewry in the international sphere. Therefore, I wish to advise the Arab press not to be too optimistic . . . not too pessimistic...
This guiding method, said Mr. McPheeters, will probably be used during the middle leg of the missile's voyage of destruction. Just after the take-off from friendly territory it can safely be guided by simpler means such as radio. When it finally nears the target, a homing device may take over...