Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best Qualified." He would, he said, read his handwritten statement twice. After the first time, the newsmen "who feel like they want to break a leg to get to the telephone may do so." The second reading would be for "the slow-motion boys." As flashbulbs blazed around Truman, he told photographers: "You fellows quit. You've had enough now." Then, savoring every word, he began to read: "This statement is dated August 11, 1956, at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon, Chicago time...
...Limb. In Los Angeles, claiming innocence when detectives questioned him about bookmaking, Ralph Pattison said he had been trying to place a bet, not take one, was arrested when the officers found $3,233 in cash and a betting slip in his wooden leg...
...luck has dogged the sports career of U.S. Army Private Willie J. Williams, 24, a powerful Negro from Gary, Ind. At the University of Illinois he wanted to be a football star in the worst way, but during a preseason drill in his junior year he broke a leg and never played football again. Later he won a fistful of Big Ten sprint championships, was leadoff man on the 400-meter relay team that set a Pan American record in Mexico in 1955. But when the Army shipped him to Los Angeles to try for the Olympic team...
Released in groups by officials of the breeders' association, each pigeon is fitted out with a numbered leg band. When the pigeon arrives at its loft, its owner slips the band into a metal capsule, which is then placed in an accurate time clock, automatically recording the moment of arrival. The capsules are returned to race officials, who calculate elapsed time and determine the winners. The judges are much more leisurely than the pigeons (which have been known to flap home as fast as 60 m.p.h.). Of the 70,000 contestants last week, all but those hopelessly lost have...
Four years after he went to London, Copley painted his great Brook Watson and the Shark (see color). The painting was commissioned by Merchant Watson himself, to commemorate a leg lost in a ship's accident in Havana Harbor. Copley used newly acquired techniques in putting the picture together: instead of painting directly from models, he began with sketches of the single figures and then combined their movements as as a choreographer...