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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Geary O'Leary, a Holy Cross halfback, received the Senior Achievement Award, given to the New England player who shows the most "courage and determination." After breaking that three operations were required to mend it, O'Leary came back to play football again this year only to break the leg again...

Author: By John E. Grady, | Title: Presentations and Platitudes Mark Local Football Dinner | 11/29/1955 | See Source »

...powerful aphrodisiac (it is not), and will pay $2,500 for a single horn. Other parts of the animal, too have honored places in the Asian pharmacopoeia. Cups made of rhino horn detect poison by shattering to bits or by making the poison bubble. Rhino shin is good for leg trouble; the hip cures female disorders. Even the dung is beneficial for skin ailments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fossils of the Future | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...fine." With The Pit, which Grosz identifies simply as "the story of my life," the big no sounded loud and clear again. In it are the memories Grosz has tried to drown in the oil of his canvases: a bloated soldier from his war years, carrying his own amputated leg; a drunken alcoholic child; Grosz's mother, killed in World War II air raid; an opulent nude being clawed by a bodiless arm; gibbets full of dancing figures; and brooding over all the specter Death and a blood-smeared female Europe, satiated to the point of idiocy. Grosz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Public Favorite: The Pit | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...locks on his house. He even put the house up for sale. There was only the certainty that Willie left his pickup outside his house when he went to bed, an omission that led him to his sorry state on the morrow, lying mangled on his back minus a leg and a hand, staring emptily upwards at an orange tree full of fruit turning gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Death of a Neighbor | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...goal, Eliot Finklestein will fill in for injured Lindsay Fischer, who is still suffering from a bruised rib cage, and Bill Linglebach will be at inside right, in place of Dick Fisher, out for the season with a broken leg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crippled Soccer Squad Will Face Lowell Institute | 11/9/1955 | See Source »

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