Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toes. In Springfield, Mass., when a postman injured his leg, fellow workers took off his shoe and sock, found his toenails red, his face redder. Smirking, he explained: "My wife did that...
...black shock over a craggy face in which only the eyes crackled; he vibrated with a strange intensity. Once, shortly after his arrival in 1941, a luncheon crowd demanded a speech. Winant rose with a glazed look, and for four straight minutes of silent agony, stood shifting from one leg to the other. Then he whispered: "The worst mistake I ever made was in getting up in the first place...
Path's End. Last Spring Polish units of the Red Army overran the camp. They found Largo Caballero gravely ill. As soon as he could travel, the Russians hurried him by plane to Paris, where doctors removed a nephritic kidney, cut off a diseased leg, marveled as the old man clung to life, week after week. To Spaniards who came to see him the old warrior talked bravely of a restored Republic, though he knew he would play no part in Spain's future. Early one morning last week, in his 76th year, Francisco Largo Caballero closed...
...illness appeared in August, 1921, when I was thoroughly tired from overwork. I first had a chill in the evening which lasted practically all night. The following morning the muscles of the right knee appeared weak and by afternoon I was unable to support my weight on my right leg. That evening the left knee began to weaken also and by the following morning I was unable to stand up. This was accompanied by a continuing temperature of about 102 and I felt thoroughly achy all over. By the end of the third day practically all muscles from the chest...
Whatever limb they lost, U.S. war casualties kept their funnybones. Cartoon ist Al Capp, creator of Li'l Abner Yokum, discovered this when he toured Army hospitals, found that amputees scorned dust-dry rehabilitation tomes, laughed their postwar worries away with comic books. Capp, who lost a leg as a young man, was sure that legless G.I.s could learn and laugh at the same time...