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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prison Verses. In 1928, Blanco started the anti-Gomez weekly El Impartial, soon made it the most influential paper in Caracas. In due time a copy fell into Tyrant Gómez's hands and Editor Blanco went to jail, spent four years in grillos (leg irons). "I witnessed tortures that were incredible," he said. "I saw them sentence one man to 1,000 lashings and saw him die after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: People's Poet | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...then that Kehoe brought out his ace, a grey-black-&-green veteran of two fights last year. It looked bad for the grey when a rival red rooster drove a spur into a lung. A few minutes later Kehoe's rooster suffered first a broken leg, then a broken wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fighting the Cocks | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...defense is equally full of holes. Charlie Coulter's lines may keep him out of action, and Bill Allen may join him on the sidelines with a leg injury...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Injury-Ridden Sextet Makes Long Jaunt to Yale Tonight | 3/6/1948 | See Source »

After that Max and Assault retired to the peace & quiet of a training track at Columbia, S.C., to lick Max's wounds and heal Assault's gimpy leg. Two weeks ago, Max and his horse turned up at Florida's Hialeah Park. Max had blood in his eye: this time he would beat "that horse." The Widener Handicap was billed as the horse-race-of-the-year: a contest between the second biggest money-winner of all time (Armed) and the third biggest (Assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bad Day for Max | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Unless large Sam Felton breaks a leg between now and 12:30 o'clock, Harvard should grab an early lead in the 27th annual indoor IC4A track and field championships at New York today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Felton Favored in IC4A Weight Throw Today; Varsity Heads North for Big Green Ice Skirmish | 2/28/1948 | See Source »

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