Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time she was 18 she had met and startled half the world's celebrities. She took to narcotics after an automobile accident in which her brother was killed and in which she was so badly hurt that her right leg was shortened by an inch and a half. Then she cured herself of the drug habit, married Edward Beale McLean, a handsome, charming, rich man's son, whose family owned the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer...
...Crimson trio consisting of Hugh H. Hill '48, Edwin J. Jacob '47, and Howard L. Swartzman '47 defeated their hosts at Princeton, while their collegues were losing a unanimous verdict to a visiting team from Yale in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Princeton took the third leg of the series by trouncing Yale on the Eli home grounds...
Simultaneously, a team from Princeton will journey to New Haven to complete the third leg of the contest...
...moment of the explosion he was leaning on the map table under which the bomb had been planted. A few seconds before, however, someone had slightly shifted Stauffenberg's briefcase, so that, instead of lying practically at Hitler's feet, it lay behind a table leg. The day, moreover, was hot, and the open conference-room windows dissipated the force of the explosion. Even so, four of the 24 men at the conference were killed, and seven severely wounded. Hitler suffered burns, bruises and a partial paralysis of the right arm, but was able to walk...
Holbrook Jackson's essay about Books Bound in Human Skin, which tells of a Russian poet who had lost a leg in a hunting accident, and used the discarded skin to bind a collection of his own love lyrics. Hides from many an aristocrat are said to have been used by leaders of the French Revolution to bind the works of their Patron-Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. Correctly tanned and dressed, human hide, says Author Jackson, is definitely comparable in texture and quality to good morocco...