Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philippe Bunau-Varilla, a Frenchman and chief engineer in Ferdinand de Lesseps' unsuccessful earlier attempt to build a Panama Canal. President Roosevelt gave tacit support to a Panamanian revolution against Colombia. The U.S.-backed plot succeeded; Bunau-Varilla (who went on in later years to lose a leg in an air raid near Verdun) suddenly became Panamanian Minister...
Munro's starting lineup will probably be without right halfback Charlie Steele, a stalwart on defense all season. Steele has a hyperextended leg that has not responded to treatment, and his status is doubtful. Bill Driver will start in Steele's absence...
...least, Billy Smith now has a leg that is better than any store model. At best, the operation portends a technique that may save many a limb in the future...
Billy Smith's leg, held by metal pins and skin grafts from his abdomen, has slowly knitted together during the past four months. He still has no feeling or movement in the limb. Not for another few months will the surgeons undertake thg. tricky task of reopening the leg to sew together the finger-thick sheath of the sciatic (spinal) nerve. They are going on surgeons' experience that nerves mend better when they are connected several months after an accident, figure that Smith will start walking again-although with a severe limp-within a year...
...approved for Northwest Airlines in near future by British government. Service will start immediately thereafter. Northwest won CAB approval to extend its transpacific route from Tokyo to Hong Kong after British opposition was overcome by President Eisenhower's approval for BOAC to add a San Francisco-Tokyo leg to its round-the-world flights...