Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surgery of Repair. For a badly smashed leg, amputation used to be the regular thing. But Chicago's Surgeon John F. Pick reported that during World War II "an extraordinary number of legs were saved" by plastic surgery. At eight U.S. Army plastic surgery centers, surgeons used new grafting methods (given names like "pincushion flap," "bridge flap") to clothe blasted legs with new flesh, and reduced amputations almost to nil. Said Surgeon Pick: "We are in a great transition from the surgery of despair to the surgery of repair...
...breezy, 37-year-old, best-selling author of Party Line, a story of smalltown small talk, has used crutches since she was eight, when she lost her right leg in a bicycle accident. To Louise Baker life on crutches is not funny, but it can be fun. She argues her case persuasively in a witty autobiography: Out on a Limb (Whittlesey House...
...efficient and attractive crutch position is dead vertical; 3) a legless person can always make a sucker of a carnival weight guesser; 4) a good way to relieve the boredom of answering nosybodies who want to know how it happened is to tell whoppers (a favorite Baker whopper: her leg got frozen stiff in skiing and was chipped off with an ice pick...
Louise, finding an artificial leg cumbersome (her leg was cut off above the knee), grew up mostly on crutches, which became "almost anatomical." She permits herself "one immodest, extravagant vanity . . . the conviction that no one in the world can handle a pair of crutches better than I." On crutches, she learned to play tennis well enough to beat some of her boy friends and compete in junior tournaments. She also danced (on one crutch), skated, skied, hiked. At Pomona College, she became a skilled horsewoman, captained her class swimming team...
...overcome these weaknesses Mac has reorganized the forward line promoting Roger Lazarus to first-string inside right, and raising Hugh Morse to first-string inside left. Phil Potter will stay at center forward with Arnold Corrigan on the outside left. With Jocko Smith still out with an injured leg, Curtis Cate will open at outside right...