Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer: their fifth child, fourth daughter; in Oxford, England. Six months ago, Patricia Neal suffered three paralyzing strokes that threw her into a coma for ten days (TIME, March 26). In a remarkable display of courage, she tackled a tough rehabilitation program, now walks (with the aid of a leg brace), is learning again how to talk. Her baby is "perfectly normal...
...practice between San Francisco and his home in Carmel, has been developing his game theory most of his professional life. It is his contention that the clues to man's irrational behavior can be found in the games he plays. Not tennis and golf and football, but Wooden Leg, Schiemiel, Peasant, Stupid, Let's You and Him Fight, and Now I've Got You, You Son of a Bitch. Some may wonder: These are games? But for those who want out, Berne has a suggestion-it takes two to play...
...chondrodystrophy, a rare form of nonhereditary dwarfism believed to be caused by a chemical imbalance during gestation. Undaunted, Dunn terrified his parents by tearing off in hot pursuit of a normal childhood. He did not quite get one, but he managed to break his nose playing football and his leg ice-skating, and he almost drowned when, at ten, he jumped off a 36-ft.-high diving board before he had learned to swim...
...hand against his nose and shoved with all my might. Suddenly I felt my hand slip into his mouth up to the wrist. I yanked frantically and got my hand free, but left shreds of flesh on Nero's teeth. Then he sank his teeth into my right leg until they actually penetrated to the bone and he started to drag me to one side of the arena. Just then he noticed the lioness, and went to her. I was unconscious the better part of twelve days, and they just about gave...
...intern, who has never presided over any birth at all, much less a critical one. An addicted nurse steals morphine from her patients. A surgeon carelessly ties off the wrong artery in a simple operation; gangrene sets in and the patient not only loses her leg but is charged $3,000 in hospitalization and extra surgery charges resulting from the surgeon's error...