Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jack rabbit's getaway, shown in slow motion that reveals the jazz-beat leg action he uses to avoid tight places...
...cameramen. On Place the Face he is continuously on his feet, but few viewers are aware of his limp. Says Cullen: "To show you how good the camera work is. I've had people stop me on the street and say, 'Hey, Bill, what happened to your leg?' like it happened . over the weekend...
Chemical Warfare. In Kansas City, Mo., after three policemen dashed into a house in answer to a report of gas, two had to turn back because of faulty gasmask adjustment, the third set his pants leg afire by stepping into a pan of flaming formaldehyde, all three later learned that the house was empty and being safely fumigated...
Bader proved as extraordinary in prison camp as in the cockpit of a Spit. He immediately demanded that the Germans search for the leg snapped off in the crash. The Germans found it badly crushed, but repaired it expertly and handed it back to Bader. He gratefully strapped it on-and within days escaped. One night Bader simply knotted some bedsheets and climbed out of the hospital where he was recuperating. A waiting guide led him off, saying: "C'est bon. C'est magnifique!" But before he could move on to England he was betrayed to the Nazis...
...freed from the trouble of bringing them up." Of Leopardi's father. Conte Monaldo, it is reported that he once took off his pants in the street and gave them to a beggar. It is the only story which suggests that the count had so much as a leg to stand on. No man was ever more henpecked, more terrified of his wife-and yet more eager in his determination to believe himself "master in my own house." Two astonishing examples are enough to illustrate Giacomo Leopardi's total dependence on his parents: 1) he was 20 before...