Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could of been puttin' me on the bus for New Orleans the way he said 'goodbye,'" Willie recalled, "and I tried to say goodbye but my tongue got stuck in the peanut butter and I felt a burnin' in my head and my left leg and I jumped against the straps...
...wasn't much difference between a seismograph and a fiddle "except one deals with slow movements and the other with rapid movements." For his scientific cello he mounted a conventional fingerboard and electrified bridge on a heavy wooden frame and stood the whole thing on a metal peg leg. Instead of tones, Dr. Benioff's cello produces electrical impulses which are transmitted to loudspeakers. It has a wider range than a standard cello, but not the deep brown tone...
Adolf Hitler, inside & out, according to U.S. Army medical research so far: he had stomach trouble, throat trouble, insomnia, imagined he had heart trouble, had a dread of getting fat, got prematurely bored with sex, acquired a stoop, a tremor in one arm and a drag in one leg, and turned yellowish from dosing himself with patent medicine...
...eighth to first place in the American Association in two years (and the value of the club from $90,000 to $250,000), Veeck joined the Marines. An impish-looking fellow of 33 with a crew haircut and massive face, he was injured at Bougainville, now carries his right leg in a cast...
...acting honors go to a young newcomer named Douglas Dick. He gives a memorable, hackle-raising performance as the son who eventually loses a leg in a war his diplomat father did nothing to avert. But most of the Wind's virtues and practically all of its faults must be credited to Playwright Hellman, who generally manages to mix propaganda and playwriting pretty deftly. This time her plugging runs away with her plotting: the outsized portion of sermon occasionally preaches more convincingly than it plays...