Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rays on Thursday revealed that lineman Paul Kelley is suffering from a cracked bone in his leg and he did not even dress for tonight's game. However, Maurice Balboni took over for him and played a fine game...
Besides Jones, the varsity's problems are relatively few. Paul Kelley, who sat out Wednesday's game against Princeton with an injured leg, should return to his position on the first line tonight. This will not only put the first line back to its normal strength, it will also allow Crimson Coach Cooney Weiland to put Dick Reilly back on the third line where he has been very effective lately...
...Kings County Hospital have devised a way of using a heart-lung machine to help selected cardiac repeaters survive the critical first six to eight hours. The heart-lung machine, previously used mainly in heart surgery to provide the surgeon with a dry field, takes blood from the leg vein of a patient, infuses oxygen, filters out bubbles in a pad of steel wool and returns the blood under pressure into an arm artery. By thus handling the circulation of about one-third of the body's blood supply, the machine sometimes relieves an ailing heart muscle of enough...
...said that the paper quoted him falsely as saying that he did not have "a legal leg to stand on." Although this was changed in later articles to "the State Department, in his opinion, did not have a legal leg to stand upon," the Herald did not mention that this was a correction, Worthy claimed...
...Monkey Wife, first published in 1930, Collier wrote an improper parable to indicate his preferences and, incidentally, to pull man's leg. It has since become a minor classic in his own special fiction-fantasy style, and belongs on the same shelf as Swift's Houyhnhnms, Karel Capek's newts, and with all those who like to move to the other side of the zoo bars the better to observe mankind. Its reissue now is a lively event in a dull publishing season...