Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leg...
...floors were spattered with broken window panes and flakes of paint from the wall. The radiators and all 15 toilets were frozen. Down in the laundry room, the 22 students, blue-skinned, dirty, tattered and hungry, were huddled around a pot-bellied stove. One 13-year-old had a leg broken in two places...
...Emberg said, 'The other boys got it.' Red went in and got a shower handle and put it in his hand, under his glove, and began socking the boy. Red said grab his arms. A couple of boys grabbed his arms and Earl stepped on his leg. Then Red hit him in the nose and mouth until he was bleeding. Then Red told him to take a shower, and Red ate dinner...
...that he is useless or unattractive. One of its most effective devices is demonstrations of skill by such famed crippled veterans as Charles Craig McGonegal (TIME, Feb. 14). When a crippled veteran is finally discharged from the Army, he has a life pension (e.g., $30 a month for a leg) and has usually begun to learn a trade. What General Kirk and his staff fear most is that oversolicitous or thoughtless civilians may undo their careful work...
...trekked to Africa with Roosevelt as a personal secretary. In World War I, he was a Major in the Quartermaster Corps, later for a time a U.S. secretary for the Inter-Allied Munitions Council. He bought the 81-year-old Journal in 1925, still does much of its leg work. He has five assistants, only one of whom (a former chaplain) has a military backgound. O'Laughlin's closest friend: John J. Pershing...