Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cache. In Knoxville, Tenn., police discovered that the $150 for which John Maples was searching had fallen through a hole in his pocket into the hollow center of his artificial leg...
Crimson cptain Albie Gordon put the mile relay quartet in the finals with a blistering 47.5 anchor leg that brought the team from fifth to third. In the finals, he overhauled Yale's Jim Stack, to take fifth, topping a day of futility for the Bulldogs and giving the varsity its final point of the afternoon...
Vladimir Vasiliev, 19, the youngest member of the Bolshoi company. A favorite trick: to bound straight off the stage, extend one leg, tuck the other under him and casually descend in perfect balance on one foot...
When Anne Carlsen was born in Grantsburg, Wis., she had only stubs of arms ending above the elbow, her right leg ended above the knee, and the left was malformed, ending in a clubfoot. Left motherless at four, Anne got tireless encouragement from her father, an elder sister and four brothers. On a coaster wagon she learned to take part in a modified version of baseball. At eight she was pronounced ready for school, but only after a psychologist had gone over her and solemnly pronounced her "educable." Anne raced through two grades a year...
Kids Are Kinder. There was time out for a long hospital siege, to straighten out the contractures in Anne's one knee. She went home able to walk, but only with a device so clumsy that she soon discarded it. When she was in high school, her left leg was amputated below the knee. Then, with artificial legs and crutches, Anne could really walk. But as she advanced to college (St. Paul's Luther Junior College and the University of Minnesota), Anne found it harder to win acceptance than it had been among young children, and harder still...