Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slopping passer byes, Bobby developed an increasing dating technique when he wrapped his tall around a girls leg...
...against dummies, the latter were replaced by aggressive freshmen who had enough go to successfully throttle the Crimson running and passing attack on several occasions. On other occasions large holes were opened for Paul Shafer and Carl Bottenfield, who alternated with him at fullback. With Chuck Roche nursing a leg bruise on the sidelines, Jim Noonan and Carroll Lowenstein shared tailback assignments...
...Black Robe. He never lost touch with his old friend in the capital. Last week the telephone call from the White House finally came to the commodious New Albany home where Judge Minton sat nursing a broken leg. (He tripped on a stone outside his home.) "Harry told me he was naming me and asked what I thought about it," said the judge. "I told him I thought it was wonderful...
...aging and ailing champions, Assault and Stymie, in Aqueduct's Edgemere Handicap. Assault, fourth-highest moneywinner in turf history ($672,520), closed gamely despite a patched-up leg and finished third. Stymie, still the world's top moneywinning horse ($911,335), was rapturously applauded as he went to the paddock for his first race since he was retired with a cracked sesamoid bone 14 months ago. After finishing dead last, Stymie was still cheered. In keeping with the quaint custom at New York tracks, the boos were for Jockey Eddie Arcaro, who rode My Request, the winner...
...most likely injury is to the growth of the feet, warns Dr. Louis H. Hempelmann in a companion article. A growing section of bone (the epiphysis) is much more easily damaged by X rays than adult bone. X rays are deliberately used to stunt the growth of one leg in a child whose other leg has been shortened by disease. Hempelmann suspects that such stunting might result from the use of X-ray shoe fitters, and go undetected for years...