Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropoulos was still sidelined with a bad leg, and will probably not see action Saturday, according to Coach Lloyd Jordan. Even if his leg does improve, Jordan said "he will not have scrimmaged for two weeks...
Upon docking in Manhattan on another leg of the honeymoon following a quasi-medieval wedding in Venice (TIME, Oct. 3), a Mexico City Volkswagen salesman, known better to the international set as empireless Prince Alfonso Maximilian Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 31, took a camera and delicately lifted the skirt hem of his voluptuous bride, Princess Virginia Ira Furstenberg, 15, to make a different kind of cheesecake shot for avid tabloid photographers...
Major Cox fired off a teletype message to Washington. Four days later, as he was sitting down to lunch in Munsan, Korea, Army Cook Charles Ronald Madeira was told that he had emergency leave, in 15 minutes had started on the first leg of his trip to Germany. On the way, Charles Madeira, who had not seen his brother since they left their home town, Reading, Pa., a year and a half ago, had some reservations ("They ain't hacking off none of my skin for nobody"). Later he decided to go through with the operation...
Reckless (née Flame) was the beloved possession of a young Korean jockey until the boy's sister lost her leg in a land-mine accident; then he decided to sell the horse to the Marines for $250 in order to buy his sister an artificial leg. On the front lines, Reckless became both a mascot and an efficient carrier of ammunition for a recoilless ("Reckless") rifle platoon, 5th Marines. She learned to relish C-rations and Wheaties, and to drink beer out of a helmet or a glass. She also learned to string communications wire efficiently...
...test case early this year, California's Industrial Accident Commission ruled that a worker who broke a leg while rushing out of the office during a coffee break was entitled to workmen's compensation...