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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cause" by telling of abuse they had suffered. After a lifetime of taking it quietly, their emotions welled up and overflowed in their testimony. Some began talking before defense lawyers asked for their names; others could hardly be stopped. Martha Kate Walker told how her blind husband's leg was hurt when a bus driver shut a door on him and drove on. Stella Brooks said her husband had been shot to death for disobeying a bus driver (her testimony was stricken from the record because she had not witnessed the shooting). Sadie Brooks told of seeing a Negro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Sounds In a Courthouse | 4/2/1956 | See Source »

...Elis again rate a slight edge, especially since they will be swimming in their own pool. Aubrey holds the world record of 49.0 for the event, but can expect trouble from Gideonse (49.7), Dyer (49.7), Moore (50.5), and Dave McIntyre of North Carolina State, who did a 48.8 relay leg in the Easterns two weeks...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Swimming Team Will Enter NCAA Meet | 3/29/1956 | See Source »

Modern Times. In Launceston, Australia, conforming to the civic motto, "Progress with Prudence," city fathers amended an old bylaw requiring swimmers to wear neck-to-knee bathing suits, decided to allow more modern apparel on the beaches, provided the suits cover at least three inches of leg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 26, 1956 | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

Paul H. Buck, Director of the University Library, underwent an operation Monday for a fracture of his left leg. He was injured when he slipped on the snow Saturday morning while trying to move a car into his garage at 9 Kirkland Place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buck Fractures Leg | 3/23/1956 | See Source »

...joined the army of the Duke of Navarra, at 30 went down in battle with a shattered leg.-The wound made Church history. While recovering, he read two books-Ludolphus of Saxony's Life of Christ and a collection of the lives of the saints-that opened his eyes to another career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Society of Jesus | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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