Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the end has come, have become desperate. They catch at straws. They believe I have abducted the sacred thing, and call me at all hours of the night to tell me how calmly they are taking it. Their star cartoonist, justifiably jealous, ambushed me recently and sprained my leg...
...Crimson's hitting attack will be notably bolstered by the return of left fielder Dick Fisher, the team's leading hitter, who has been out of action by a leg injury. However, Bob Hastings, who has been the mainstay of the infield and the team's leading RBI man, may not be able to see action. If Hastings does not play, Tom Bergantino will start at short and Matt Botsford will be the third baseman...
...water, the longhorn was a perfect mate for the environment and multiplied on the wild ranges. By the time the Lone Star State won its independence, there were 80,000 longhorns in Texas, more critters than humans. Yet by 1920 the longhorn was almost extinct. It carried too much leg, flank and horn in proportion to edible beef, and cowmen simply could not afford to keep...
Major General Dan Sickles may or may not have won the Battle of Gettysburg (he thought he did), but he was an American who lived as if he never cared where his next square melee was coming from. On one leg (he lost his right leg to one of Longstreet's cannonballs on the second day of the battle), he lived more than most men could a) on two legs and b) in two lifetimes...
...varsity will be without the services of first man Dale Junta, who injured his leg in last week's matches, and Connie Fischer, out with a sore back...