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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...varsity football team will be in good shape physically for the Brown game Saturday, barring injuries later in the week, Coach Lloyd Jordan said yesterday. Quarterback Phil Haughey, out with a slight leg injury, will probably be the only player not ready for service, though even he "may be ready," Jordan said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Says Team In Excellent Shape | 11/8/1955 | See Source »

Revolutionary. Dropped from army rolls, he ran a grocery, plotted with other discontented officers, got caught. Sent before a firing squad with 17 others, he saved himself by feigning death after bullets only nicked his leg. Talked his way into army hospital, after which Arbenz & Co. relented and sent him to prison. Escaped spectacularly to foreign exile by digging a tunnel under the wall of Guatemala City's National Penitentiary. From neighboring Honduras in June 1954 he walked into Guatemala at the head of 400 half-trained volunteers, and, backed up by four vintage fighter planes, defeated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CASTILLO ARMAS: GUEST FROM GUATEMALA | 11/7/1955 | See Source »

Maher has been one of the stalwarts of the vaunted first line, and although he returned to practice in sweatclothes yesterday, his leg injury should keep him out of most, if not all of the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Injuries to Keep Four Players Out Of Princeton Test | 11/4/1955 | See Source »

...announce his lineup for this Saturday's game against Princeton, but disclosed that tackle John Maher may not start because of a leg bruise he suffered in the Bucknell game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jordan Attacks Official's Decision, Asserts 'It Didn't Need to Happen' | 11/1/1955 | See Source »

...Crimson line, shuffled once more as a result of Dick Fisher's broken leg, passed well throughout the game, but displayed marked inaccuracy in shooting. Eight times the Crimson actually kicked shots ever the Penn goal, marksmanship equivalent to missing the rim on eight basketball layups...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Penn Defeats Soccer Teams; Weak Attack Hurts Crimson | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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