Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corps' Greene. "Well," he said, "as long as we are going to be in here ten years, we might as well not hurry." Chairman Wheeler rose to the bait. "Ten years?" he asked. "Why ten years?" The Army's Johnson ruefully explained that Greene was "pulling my leg"; only a few days before, Johnson had been quoted in the newspapers as having said that the U.S. might have to stay in South Viet Nam for another ten years. "Who trapped you into saying that?" asked Wheeler, a slight edge to his voice. Johnson defended himself...
...varsity wasn't as fortunate. John Dockery, John Parker, and Mike Hauck, handed anchor man Lynch a slight lead over Holy Cross. But Crusader anchor man Bob Credle is probably the best middle-distance man in New England; despite a 50.6 leg by Lynch, Credle charged past him in the last 10 yards to win a photo finish. The timers of the race gave Harvard a faster time than Holy Cross, but the finish judges saw it differently...
...issued no publicity about it to boost his ratings. He jotted down the names of thousands of servicemen whose relations he called up for a personal report when he got back. Burr hobbled through his most recent Jeep-and-helicopter round last month despite a painfully pinched leg nerve, and though he rarely gabs about Perry Mason (preferring to listen to G.I. gripes), the gunner who flew with him gives the consensus: "Ray Burr is one helluva fine...
...many cases. What the fetus may need, he reasoned, is a massive, virtually total exchange transfusion. But how to give it? In one case, Dr. Adamsons boldly cut through the mother's abdominal wall and enough of the uterus to expose the fetus' abdomen and one leg. He cut into the fetus' groin and put a plastic catheter in the femoral artery. Through this tube he withdrew much of the baby's blood and replaced it with donor blood. Astonishingly, this radical surgery did not kill the fetus. But when the mother later went into labor...
Many people in Roxbury, Kahn stressed, don't seek medical help until an emergency arises, such as a broken arm or leg. They see the nearby Boston City Hospital as inefficient and cold, and moreover, have little money to spend on medical care...