Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Galluses. He was an attorney and an educated man (University of Georgia, '07) and could talk quietly and well. But he never made the mistake of allowing the voters to discover it. He overflowed with leg-slapping rustic humor. Once, when a heckler asked if a man should be punished for beating his wife, he cried: "Depends on how hard you hit her." He chewed tobacco and smoked at the same time, sometimes dressed up in cowboy clothes to ride a mule. As Governor he built barns behind the executive mansion, kept cows, hogs and hens in them. When...
...winter sunshine. The raised-arm salute was used only once (it has been replaced by waving white handkerchiefs). But the barked "Franco, Franco, Franco!" is still used with almost hypnotic effect. Signs carried included one showing a man preparing to lower his trousers and a dog lifting his leg over the letters "U.N.O...
Going My Way. In Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire, England, coal miner Charles Carter plunged 775 feet down a mine elevator shaft, landed on a descending cage, got off at the bottom of the shaft with only a broken leg...
Also chosen among the ten New England Rhodes scholars in the first scholarship election in seven years, was Charles G. Bolte, Dartmouth '41, founder and present national chairman of the American Veterans Committee. A member of the British Army from 1941 to 1943, Botle lost a leg in the battle of El Alnmein...
...sheet ropes over fire-belching windows, and leaped for safety nets. Some hit with such force that the nets were torn from firemen's hands. As a girl jumped from a seventh-floor window she gasped: "I hope I live! I hope I live!" Despite a broken hip, leg...