Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exalt violence," pouted Sophia Loren, 30, who cut quite a figure in the bordello scene in Marriage-Italian Style. Virna Lisi, 27, was hardly more penitent: "I have a severe husband, I am a good mother, and yet I absolutely do not feel guilty for having shown a little leg and a little back in a little amusing film...
...four races, smashed two track records -and broke down. Or consider the case of Christopher Chenery, utilities magnate, Derbyphile. On the day before the 1962 Derby, Chenery's Sir Gaylord was the 8-5 favorite. That same day he stepped into a hole on the track, broke a leg and retired to stud...
Merchant Seaman Thomas D. Dailey was whooping it up in a New Orleans saloon when he fell off a barstool and broke his leg. Whom did he sue? The saloon? The distiller whose spirits decked him? Not Seaman Dailey. He sued the owner of his ship, which was tied up 3½ miles from the scene of his accident...
...willful misconduct, such as the contraction of venereal dis ease, but the court has held that seamen are "in the service of the ship" even when falling-down drunk ashore. In one famous case, a tipsy sailor tumbled out of a dance-hall window in Naples and broke his leg. Another dived into a dry dock a mile away from his ship in Palermo and was permanently disabled. Both casualties sued their shipowners for complete care, and won in the U.S. Supreme Court because "shore leave is an elemental necessity in the sailing of ships" and boozing...
...twin pods attached to the fuselage, much like the smaller two-engine French Caravelle and three-engine Boeing medium-range 727. This design leaves its swept-back wingspan uncluttered, permits slower landing speeds, shorter takeoffs and more dependable lift. For the passengers, there is more comfort: more leg room, improved air conditioning and a considerably quieter ride...