Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road and watched the car with Meuler in it go somersaulting end over end down a steep, brushy, 100-yard slope. Below that, sheer cliffs fell away to the sea. But just before the car cleared the edge, Meuler was flung out. He was horribly hurt-one leg, a hip and his back were broken, his face was torn and his scalp split-but he rose, fell, rose again. Thomson scrambled downhill toward him and put a tourniquet on his bleeding leg. He took off his pants, covered Meuler with them, and scrambled up to flag a passing motorist...
Until she broke her leg in a fall last year, Mrs. Dorothy Ferguson, 39, of Greeley, Colo. liked to putter about the kitchen just like any other housewife, occasionally whipping up a batch of cookies for her husband and two daughters. By last week Housewife Ferguson had become the busiest, most prominent businesswoman in Greeley (pop. 20,000), and dozens of her neighbors were in business with...
Dottie Ferguson and her husband Frank incorporated the cookie-making venture as Dorothy Ferguson, Inc., issued 60,000 shares of stock and began selling it at $2 a share. Greeley townsfolk, from the doctor who set her leg to the garage owner who serviced her refrigeration, bought the stock. Soon Dottie's Quickie Cookies grew so big that Frank had to leave his job with Greeley's Consumer Oil Co. to devote all his time to managing the plant and designing special equipment for freezing the dough. In July the Fergusons moved into a new $16.000 plant with...
...there the resemblance ended. Their teardrop bodies were made of sleek Fiberglas or hammered aluminum, their stock engines retooled and refitted for at least twice the ordinary horsepower. One car flipped over at 240 m.p.h.; the driver, protected by safety belts and rollover bars, got out with a broken leg. But the others, whistling eerily over the 14-mile course, shattered records in three International classes, some that had stood since the late 1930s, when four of Nazi Germany's biggest automakers spent huge sums on a series of super-racers to help glorify Hitler. The new record-holders...
...Indian Ocean, halfway to Ceylon. Gibson was one of 135 survivors who swam to the only lifeboat left afloat, one designed to hold 28 (80 got aboard). Like many of the others, Gibson was wounded: his collarbone was fractured and a shell fragment had lodged in his leg. On the first day, the captain took stock of their supplies: a case of bully beef (48 twelve-ounce cans), two seven-pound cans of fried spiced rice, 48 cans of condensed milk, about six quarts of fresh water...