Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spot. In Palau, Hospital Apprentice ist Class Albert O. Seagle stood at his post, felt a Jap bullet strike his leg, fell on an operating table, received treatment. Elapsed time: 3 seconds...
Franklin Roosevelt had made another decision: to leave his leg braces at home. There was a momentary hush as he came into the chamber in an armless wheelchair. Then there was an ovation. The President slipped into a red plush chair in the well of the House, behind a table lined with a dozen microphones. As the flashbulbs popped and newsreels ground, he turned to wave to Vice President Truman and House Majority Leader McCormack on the dais...
When the broken bone failed to heal, after weeks of conventional treatment, the soldier was operated on. He was mystified to find that his only new wound was a 2½-inch incision above the hipbone. Two days later, the German surgeons told him to move his leg; a few days after that, they told him to walk. He did. He has walked ever since...
...beach this morning I saw at least 50 men still fighting despite their wounds. Captain William Ketcham, commanding Company I in Vandegrift's battalion, was nicked in the arm and leg by snipers' bullets, but was merely contemptuous of the Japs' aim: "Shot at me twelve times and barely broke the skin with two bullets," said he. This battalion, in its brief periods in the front line, has had more than 100 casualties (mostly wounded). As it prepared to attack again today, Vandegrift cautioned his men: "Sniper fire gets very hot around here-better keep down...
Once it seemed that old Referee Misfortune was always putting him in the penalty box. As Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard made his way up from the kid rinks of Montreal to the pro Canadiens, he first broke a leg, then an arm, then a leg. Now the Canadiens' freak left-handed right wing, he has shed his bad luck but kept his knack for breaking things. This week he broke the National Hockey League's goal-scoring record...