Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy. Its plastic case safeguards it from discovery by mine detectors. The miniature mine's capacity for destruction is limited-it is unlikely to do serious damage to a vehicle-but Army tests indicate that it has enough power to blow off a foot soldier's leg...
Most of the brass were the kind whom Bonn promises to bar from the new German army, or would be vetoed by other nations under the terms of the European Army Treaty. Typical was Luftwaffe Colonel Hans Ulrich Rudel, the one-legged Panzerknacker (tankbuster) whom Göring improbably credited with one Russian battleship, two heavy cruisers and 532 Red army tanks in 2,500 sorties. Decorated with the Wehrmacht's highest combat honors,* Rudel escaped to Buenos Aires at war's end, sold his memoirs (Nevertheless . . .) and, despite his wooden leg, bested all comers as tennis player...
SOUTH AFRICA New Recruit A curly-haired British South African, awkward on his crutches after an automobile accident that shattered his right leg, hopped out of a green car one day last week at the entrance to Germiston Negro location, a sprawl of tin huts 15 miles east of Johannesburg. He was the first white recruit-and quite a catch-for the Passive Resistance campaign, organized by blacks, half-whites and browns against Prime Minister Daniel Malan's racial segregation laws...
Among other outstanding competitors who didn't see much action last year, and upon whom the team is counting are Hans Vitzthum, who was out last year with a bad leg, Kris Lehmkuhl, who has had lots of experience, Henry Horner, who proved last year he could fill in at any position, and downhill man Noel Scullin...
Lowenstein, five ft., eight in. tailback, was drafted after the third game of last season. His playing that year had been hampered by the aftereffects of a leg fracture sustained in spring practice...