Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yard freestyle relay, the Crimson team of Koni Ulbrich, Fred Cooley, Dick Seaton, and Hunter swam its fastest time of the season--a 3:28.0, to finish a close second to Yale. In the final leg, Hunter did a 49.5, with some watches clocking him at 49.3. At any rate, his official time was only .5 seconds off Chouteau Dyer's varsity record, indicating that by his senior year, Hunter may be headed for greater heights...
Smarting from a series of defeats, the men of Marylebone moved to Peshawar, where they were promptly whipped again. The losers were galled, less by the score than by a series of "leg before wicket"* decisions awarded to Pakistan's star bowler by Umpire Idris Beg. Back in their rooms at Deans Hotel, the cricketers got themselves sufficiently stimulated to hire tongas (horse-drawn rickshaws) and hunt down Umpire Beg. When they found him. they politely invited him back to Deans for "a little private party." Beg refused, so the players took him anyway-according to Beg-dislocating...
...Richard's elder brother Edward IV. The camera peers at the proceedings past a huge head of glossy black hair. The head turns, and suddenly a long, coldly intellectual face stares straight at the spectator with an eye that catches him like a fishhook. This is Richard-lame leg, hunchback, "weerish withered arme" and all-and he is a frightening man indeed. A minute later the moviegoer is alone with the monster. "Why," he confides, as the thin lip writhes with an impish humor, "I can smile, and murder while I smile / . . . And wet my cheeks with artificial tears...
...Ghost, sometimes she came and stood at the foot of the bed . . . The tree that fell on John Perry, it cut off his leg . . . The lightning that struck Rufo Bar-cliff, it killed...
Dartmouth's Doug Brew ran a torrid anchor leg as both the Indians and Army outran the Crimson two-mile relay team. Cairns tired by his 1000 effort barely held a 30 yard lead given him by Dick Norris and Otis Gates. Anchorman Bill Morris could do no better than third...