Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Africa from Negro Africa (generally put at 12° north of the equator) splits the Sudan at its midriff, subjects the fledgling country to the tensions of both. In the swampy south and in Kordofan live the eccentric Nuers (who stand for hours, like cranes or herons, on one leg), the equally naked Nuba (whose chief adornments are grotesque, cicatrized tribal scars on cheeks and foreheads), and, along the Red Sea coast, the mop-haired Hadendowa (Kipling's Fuzzy-Wuzzies, who "broke a British square"). Inevitably, the primitive southerners distrust and dislike their more sophisticated Arabic countrymen...
Home-Town Boys. The Kutis Funeral Home first became a soccer patron 15 years ago when some boys asked it to sponsor their team. Fearing mayhem, Kutis and his father gloomily agreed, saw their stark pessimism confirmed when a boy broke his leg before even a ghoul was scored. They dropped the team, but five years ago Tom Kutis decided to try again. He built his championship team exclusively from home-town St. Louis boys, although at times he has hired a European coach. "We don't import players," says Kutis. "St. Louis boys fit in better with...
Anyone's Guest. In Wenatchee, Wash., Mrs. Shelby Thrift sued Grocery Owner Roy Duvaul for $2,500 damages after having been pecked on the leg by a rooster which she claimed the grocer harbored "knowing it to be of a vicious and mischievous disposition," heard Duvaul insist that the bird was not his, it just "showed up at the store and hung around...
...Crimson two-mile relay team finished second in a four way race, losing only to Yale. Bill Thompson led off for the varsity, and after running last for the first part of his half-mile leg, he came back to grab a five-yard lead before handing the baton to captain Pete Reider...
...described it:"[He] not infrequently condescends to wither mankind through his spectacles from one of the marble tables." His love of bad puns was notorious ("A good one is not worth listening to"). Said a friend: "I recollect him now, wiping his brow after trying vainly to help the leg of a tough fowl, and saying he was 'heaving a thigh...