Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Princess Elizabeth, niece of the Duke of Windsor whose equestrian mishaps were stock gag fodder in the '20s, came a cropper herself on the Balmoral Castle grounds in Scotland, got some nasty leg bruises when her horse threw her against a tree...
...about it: "The first ten days were the hardest. They wouldn't let anybody touch me to help me. Every day they blindfolded me and threw me in a truck to take me into town, then questioned me all day. They would make me walk on my bad leg, and shove me with a rifle butt to make sure I did. After ten days I was getting pretty ripe-I don't know how they stood the smell. Finally they let a doctor wash...
...Japanese had been piped aboard four minutes before MacArthur made his appearance. The first aboard was the silk-hatted Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, limping on his wooden leg, leaning on his cane and clutching at the ship's ropes as he pulled himself up the stairway. The second was the dour, solemn-faced Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Yoshijiro Umezu-his chest covered with ribbons and hung with gold braid, his eyes blank and unseeing...
...Then, when the count had evened at 4-all, the two battled through 18 games without a break in service. The crowd of 12,000 rose to applaud - and stretch - when Talbert's tremendous serve put him ahead, 12-11. But after doing the impossible on one good leg, Talbert didn't have any more. The robot-calm Parker took the set 14-12, the next...
This week, for example, finds him at the Boeing Aircraft plant in Seattle - off on the first leg of a journey that will carry him to science centers in every state...