Word: legging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With trembling hands. One table-leg was wobbly; A piece of shell fixed that...
Captain Dexter Lewis may not play tomorrow, due to a pulled leg muscle. Tentatively, the starting attack will include Larry Coburn, Don Dawidoff, and Albie Wells. Leo Daley, Gibson Gerry, and Fred Sharf will start on defense, while Mike Durham, Jim Gale, and Mike Holmes are scheduled to open midfield play. John Ogden will tend the goal...
...With the help of a flying start as he took off on the anchor leg of a mile relay race against Ohio State and Army in Pittsburgh, Arnie Sowell, Pitt's junior speed boy, came home in front and stepped off one of the fastest quarter-miles in footracing history. His time...
...those flights of mystic brotherhood common to 19th century Russian intellectuals. He approached it with a clothespin ever ready to clamp to his nose, as when he described a provincial sausage: "The odor was as if you had entered a stable at the moment the coachman was unwinding his leg puttees; when you started chewing the stuff you experienced a sensation like sinking your teeth into a tar-smeared dog's tail." Yet he spent a heroic overworked year heading off a cholera epidemic in a west Russia country district, all the while grumping unheroically...
Chekhov was himself a portable sickroom, a walking one-man plague. At 24, he coughed blood for the first time, heralding the tuberculosis that would kill him 20 years later. In letter after letter, he issued bulletins on "my phlebitis in the left leg," on palpitations of the heart ("Every minute my heart stops for several seconds and does not beat"), on hemorrhoids ("a vile, despicable malady"), and even recognized the psychosomatic nature of some of his ailments. ("My intestinal catarrh left me the moment I left Uncle's. Evidently the odor of sanctity has a weakening effect...