Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...train for Budapest, under guard and shackled with chains. It was a road he had often driven: he knew its grades, its crossings, the country on each side of its right of way. He asked his guard for permission to use the toilet. The guard removed his arm and leg irons, saw him into the small compartment at the car's end, and stood sentinel outside...
Results: a broken spring for the bus; a broken leg for the conductor; minor injuries for twelve passengers; a ?10 ($28) bonus to Albert for his quick thinking...
...Leg it; put it, rush it, streak...
...into his father's arms below. But as he did so, Brian wriggled away, and ran back toward the flames. His shirt blazing, his shoulders and arms already burned, Jack took after Brian, caught him, carried him to the window and dropped him to safety. Jack put one leg over the windowsill, ready to get out himself, but fainted and, unconscious, tumbled into his father's arms...
...amateur entomologist who developed his leg muscles chasing specimens, Landy took to running in earnest only three years ago. In 1950 he was still trying to break 4:30, and his best time last season was 4:21. He was one of the last runners chosen as a member of the Australian Olympic team and one of the first to be shut out of the 1,500-meter heats at the Olympics. But as a sidelined observer, Miler Landy took due note of the peculiar running style of Czechoslovakia's famed triple Olympic Titleholder Emil Zatopek (TIME...