Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn won the pennant and the Giants got a new manager: Melvin Thomas Ott, the club's slugging right fielder with a peculiar but potent cocked-leg stand. The feud was and still is in flower, but hard as they tried, the Flatbush faithful could not hate stumpy, boyish Mel Ott. The Dodgers have outclassed the Giants in recent years, but they still respect Enemy Agent...
...squares away to a pitch as though he were going to beat a rug. Crowding the plate with feet apart, he rears up his front leg (not unlike a dog leaning into a hydrant), pulls back his bat, then steps forward and swings. Whenever he faces a high-kicking pitcher, the game looks as leggy as ballet...
After 37 days the Japs imprisoned him in Manila. When MacArthur's men freed him, 36 months later, Weissblatt was hobbling on crutches, one leg three inches shorter than the other and twisted 90 degrees out of position. The bullet was still in his thigh...
...example: a few days ago a Tommy (in the Tank Corps) was brought in by one of us. Both his arms were thoroughly smashed, his right leg was broken and badly gashed, hip gashed, and he had bad body wounds. Not a word of self-pity! He thanked us for treating him well, smiled and said he wouldn't have our job for anything (sic)-too hazardous! Next day he died...
Sickles was now in his 80s. To William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, says author Pinchon, he was a valued counselor; to veterans an adored hero. ("It is my guess," observed Sickles' friend Mark Twain, "that if the General had to lose a leg, he'd rather lose the one he has than the one he hasn't.") And, incredibly enough, he was still the terror of matrons with unmarried daughters. The great bureau in his bedroom was stuffed with silk stockings, lingerie and perfume; to a lady who said she would prefer to be rewarded with...