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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Gunpowder Crumb | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Iraq's twelve-year-old King Feisal, in Switzerland on a winter vacation, went skiing at Villars, broke his left leg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tree Hands Loss To Ace Wrestler With One Big Fall | 1/7/1948 | See Source »

With its top boards returning for further action next year, the Crimson stands a good chance of gaining another leg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chess Four Check Columbia, Yale, Princeton for Trophy | 1/6/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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