Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adrian, the "old, dangling" Sir Peter Teazle, and Cavada Humphrey, his young bride Lady Teazle. Adrian is a past master of timing and comic acting--a second "incomparable Max." And young as he is, he takes care to embody advanced age to the creakiest hip joint and most unyielding leg muscle, where the best make-up in the world is of no avail...
...Atlanta. Somehow, the rod touched a live wire carrying 11,000 volts. Kilpatrick was savagely burned and lost consciousness. Doctors at the Emory hospital doubted that he would live and it was touch and go for weeks. With third-degree burns penetrating to the bones of his lower left leg and right foot, Kilpatrick mercifully did not regain full consciousness for two weeks. By then, Surgeon William C. McGarity had already amputated his left leg below the knee. His right foot seemed likely to be lost. It was also doubtful whether he might ever regain the use of his right...
...skin back onto Kilpatrick's right foot, he had to use pedicle grafts (TIME, April 8, 1957), with the skin flap left attached to its original site to maintain blood flow until it "took" at the new site. Obvious sources would have been Kilpatrick's left leg-the part that had had to be amputated. So Dr. Kelly had to try a triple play-from right thigh to left stump, later from there to the right foot. This kept Kilpatrick in a grotesquely distorted and uncomfortable position. And the flap died in the first stage. A second...
...water tank itself. Once, he nearly tipped the truck over, and the mayor escaped only by turning the water on full blast. But in a final charge, the bull misjudged the speed of the truck and, after the collision, lay helpless on the sand with a broken leg...
With a wave of a symbolic radioactive wand. Pat Nixon last week sponsored the keel-laying of the world's first atomic merchantman-and gave the U.S. another leg up in the race to develop peaceful uses for nuclear power. To be built by New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, N.J., N.S. Savannah will cost $40 million by the time it is completed in 1960. will serve as the model for private shippers who are increasingly anxious to get into the field. Cities Service. Gulf Oil and Standard Oil (N.J.) are all interested, and the Maritime Administration hopes...