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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Albright, the current world champion, competes in the school figures today, and will perform the free figures Thursday. The leg gash which she suffered in practice has apparently healed well, and to the beginning of competition today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tenley Skates Today For Olympic Crown; Cleary Scores Goal | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...Tenley Albright, world's champion figure skater and one of the U.S.'s few sure bets for a first place, tripped over a hole in the ice and gashed her leg. But the pretty blonde premedical student, who took up skating to offset the effects of childhood polio, insisted she would be ready for competition. Her physician father, who flew in from the U.S., agreed. Said Tenley: "I'll skate even if the leg is broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ill-Omened Olympics | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...Crack Russian Skier Valentina Nabatenko broke her leg while schussing down Cortina's Tofana mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ill-Omened Olympics | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...race against Yale and Princeton, plus unknown quantity, Colgate. As injury to Al Wills has forced a substitution of Jim Cairns in the quartet which defeated Yale and Princeton in the K. of C. Meet. Mike Robertson will lead off, with Cairns second. French Anderson will run the third leg, with Dick Wharton anchoring...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Cohen and Dillard to Meet in BAA; Two-Mile Relay Team Seeks Mark | 1/27/1956 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Radcliffe junior Tenley Albright will continue practicing, trying to shake off the effects of her injured leg, in preparation for the figure skating events Monday. The current World Champion, she went through her most rigorous routines yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olympic Sextet Faces Czechs | 1/27/1956 | See Source »

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