Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first, everyone assumed that the women with mottled legs were either survivors of atomic attack or carriers of a rare, undoubtedly contagious skin disease. Headwaiters isolated them at restaurants, husbands kept yards away in public and normally affable children (their own) withdrew in horror at the sight (once good and simple) and touch (once soft and silky) of mothers grown suddenly striped, checked or just plain scaly from the knee down. They were only wearing textured stockings, but months went by before even best friends dared come close enough to tell them. By then it was too late: the rage...
...first leg of a four-month, State-Department-sponsored tour of the Far East and Africa, Folk Singers Steve Addiss, 29, and Bill Crofut, 30, have spent the last month hopscotching around the outlying villages in war-torn Viet Nam. Armed with a banjo, two guitars, a flute, a French horn and a 16-string Vietnamese zither called a dan tranh, they sang in schools and hospitals, in the streets and rice fields. They sang American, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Cambodian folk songs, often to a thumping chorus of artillery and mortar fire, slept on wooden planks, hitchhiked rides...
...Chinese Legs. The experience has made them true international troubadors. Their repertory of songs is staggering. They sing in 27 different languages, including Batak, Luo, Amharic and Kis-si, and play such native instruments as the Indonesian angklung and the Chinese ch'eng. The neck of Crofut's banjo is fashioned from a leg from a Chinese table, while the frets are made out of toy railroad tracks from Korea...
...speech that I didn't get to make at the Democratic convention in West Springfield last June"), then carefully eased into a convertible for a rootin'-tootin' motorcade to the airport. A commercial jet took him to Miami, and the family Caroline on the last leg of his odyssey to his two children in Palm Beach. But all that wasn't quite enough for Teddy Jr., 3, who greeted his father with "Carry me piggyback, Daddy?" "I'm afraid you'll have to wait a while for that," said Daddy with what newsmen gamely...
...likely that Warner will stay out of the two-mile since Walt Hewlett probably cannot be beaten--certainly not by a runner on the third leg of a triple...