Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parcel under his arm. He stopped at the house where the advance party (two men and two women) of the United Nations Palestine Commission was staying. Glancing quickly about him, he rang the doorbell, handed in his parcel, and dashed off. In the package were a chicken, a leg of lamb, carrots, lettuce, eggplant and two loaves of bread...
...went to work for an elder brother as a potter's apprentice. On his own, he began a series of experiments, continued for the rest of his life, with new combinations of clay, flint and bone, new firing methods and temperatures, and new glazes. Smallpox cost him a leg, but that gave him all the more time to meditate on the potter's trade. "I saw the field was spacious," he wrote, "and the soil so good as to promise an ample recompense to anyone who should labor diligently in its cultivation...
...Harmless" Civilians? If the war is just, does it matter what means are used to win it? Yes, says the commission: "A surgeon, driven to amputate a foot to save a patient's life, would be blameworthy if he unnecessarily cut off the whole leg." In the same way, a belligerent should seek to damage his enemy as lightly as possible and "shun all acts . . . calculated to breed hatred...
...Crimson defeated Nassau in the home leg of the debate, held in Paine Hall, but lost in New Haven to the all victorious Blues...
Another Yardling, Donald C. Wyner '51, had also entered the super-sprint, but he was forced to withdraw after doctors advised him not to run, due to an old leg injury. He attended the Suffolk Downs opening instead...