Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the 200 racers who are entered are top performers from Harvard, Dartmouth, Middlebury, New Hampshire, Maine, Amherst, Williams, Vermont, Norwich, and Paul Smith's. Ebbe Dane, captain of the Harvard team, will not race because of a leg injury. Otherwise, the squad will be in good shape with three of last year's letter winners entered. The team will open its official schedule at Lyndonville...
There was a day when a person could fall down a flight of stairs and break a leg in discrete privacy. A hundred years ago, accidents were accidents, and they were your own tough luck. Nobody cared, but at least you could keep your mishaps to yourself...
Hemingway's African injuries were a ruptured kidney, bad burns, cracked skull, two compressed vertebrae and one vertebra cracked clear through. These were added to scars that cover perhaps half his body surface, including half a dozen head wounds, 237 shrapnel scars in one leg, a shot-off kneecap, wounds in both feet, both arms, both hands and groin, all acquired in the two World Wars. By last week he was much improved, but his back was still bothering him. When he sat, he lined his chair with big flat picture books and a backboard. "I have to take...
...beer for his guest and the mate, some chilled tequila for Skipper Hemingway. He consults with his mate, an agile, creased Canary Islander named Gregorio Fuentes. Then Hemingway shucks off his shoes and socks, chins himself on the edge of the Pilar's flying bridge, throws one leg up, and, favoring his sore back, slowly raises himself to the roof to take the set of controls. The Pilar glides trimly past Morro Castle. Hemingway delightedly sniffs the sea-grape-scented air and gestures to the whole ocean. "It's the last free place there...
...reaches down, grabs one of the rods by its tip and pulls it to the roof. He jerks once to set the hook, then with slow, graceful movements he pumps the rod back, reels a few feet, pumps, reels. To protect his back, he lets his arms and one leg do the work. By the shivery feel on the line he can identify the catch. "Bonito," he tells Gregorio. "Good bonito." With smooth speed, he works the fish close to the stern. Gregorio grabs the wire leader and boats a blue-and-silver bonito of about 15 pounds. A broad...