Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baba-Yaga was a bloodthirsty witch who flitted through the skazki (fairy tales) of old Russia. She had a false leg fashioned from the polished thighbone of a young boy. She lived in a house that hopped on chicken-footed stilts, around which was an iron fence ornamented with skulls. After dark, the eye sockets of the skulls glowed with fire to light her way. Her chariot was a mortar, which she pushed with a pestle, using her besom to erase her singular track. Innocent children were her favorite fare, but once a girl child, who might have been...
Iraq's twelve-year-old King Feisal, in Switzerland on a winter vacation, went skiing at Villars, broke his left leg...
Boston released no comment on the incident but recalled the lamented case of the House football player who fell out of bed early one morning and fractured his leg...
With its top boards returning for further action next year, the Crimson stands a good chance of gaining another leg...
...Answer. In Alaganik, Alaska, a search party hunting Jimmy La Gasa, who had fired a rifle at a powder magazine just to see what would happen, found one leg...