Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. William L. Rogers of Mantena, Ill.: "I was shot down over Belgrade Sept. 8, 1944. I bailed out, landed in a cornfield where the stalks were still standing, my leg hurt badly. . . . After a few hours peasants came to where I was lying. They said: 'Chetniks, Chetniks' and 'doctor, doctor.' They brought a two-wheeled cart and made me understand they were taking me to a doctor. The cart's jolting hurt my leg; when they noticed it, they placed me on some boards and carried...
Chronic work-shys at once cleared out of the capital. Even when some crept back, the average cop hardly broke a leg to nab a candidate. Most Uruguayans had forgotten all about the scheme when last week Montevideo's alert El Diario turned up the fact that their hobo college, with a staff of 46, had shrunk to six scholars. Hurriedly the police began beating the boondocks for prospective pupils...
They tried batting left handed. They tried batting loft handed with one hand. They tried running backwards. They tried running backwards on one leg. Eventually they got around to using the bat as a billiard cue and fielding the ball from the tail...
...last leg Musk-Ox bogged down. The snowmobiles which had licked the northern wilderness could not take modern highway conditions. On the gravel of the Alaska Highway their engines became clogged with dust, the heat in the vehicles became unbearable. At Grand Prairie, Alberta, with but 250 miles to go to Edmonton, Musk-Ox called for help. A special train was sent up. Eighty days out of Churchill, Manitoba, the weary men of Musk-Ox were glad to load their snowmobiles on the train, pile on themselves for the ride to their goal...
Guessing Game. Feller was finally ready for the first pitch. His arms heaved from below his knees to a great overhead stretch, his left leg twisted up & around, he practically put his gloved hand in the batter's face, his right arm snapped through with as much wrist English as though he were cracking a blacksnake whip. The Yankee lead-off man hardly saw the first one that buzzed by with a full two-inch...