Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...election of national officers was a smashing victory for A.V.C. moderates, a resounding defeat for Communist-led delegates. Acting National Chairman Charles Bolte, who lost a leg fighting with the British Eighth Army at El Alamein, was re-elected to the top spot with only one dissenting vote, A.V.C.-Founder Gilbert Harrison as vice chairman. (Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., looming large in behind-the-scenes politicking, did not run for office...
...fined for unleashing it in Manhattan's Central Park (TIME, May 27), tried to go fishing and walked into an explosion. At Greenport, L.I., the portly comedian and Son Robert were tuning up the engines of their cabin cruiser when something exploded. Results: Son Robert, arm and leg burns; Victor, a scratched thumb and little finger, singed hair and eyebrows...
Wenger woke up in a hospital with a fractured right leg. His wife was critically hurt: severe multiple brain hemorrhages which caused complete paralysis of her limbs and facial muscles. She could not talk, eat or even smile. And she was pregnant...
...Alzaga Unzue) for $35,000-odd (she took his gifts and then ditched him, he complained), made an interesting retort. She had married him once, and living with him was "too dangerous," she protested. She declared that he "used to beat himself up, scratch his face and bite my leg. There was a pretty bad time all around. He would beat his head against the wall. It was difficult to be married to a man like that." Said Señor Macoco, shocked: "I cannot imagine anything more ridiculous than biting a girl's leg. ... I have great admiration...
...swamp people had picked a favorite: muscular, moon-faced Herb Creppel, 24, who won the last big race just before he went off to be a paratrooper, three years ago. Now he was defending his championship with a shrapnel wound in his right leg. It didn't seem to hamper his long, powerful stroke. Uncle Emile was in the race, too, more for family support than anything else. They had to beat their traditional rivals, the Billiot family -and there were three Billiots in the race, headed by grim, 65-year-old Grandpa Etienne and Son Adam, a five...