Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years and twelve big-league seasons, Mickey Mantle has learned to live with pain the way most men live with shaving in the morning. He has an arrested case of osteomyelitis in his left leg. The cartilage is gone from his right knee. His right shoulder has been weak since 1957, when he collided with Red Schoendienst at second base. He has twisted innumerable muscles, and during the 1961 World Series, he bled through his uniform from an abscess on his hip. There is no telling how good a healthy Mickey Mantle might have been. Crippled, he has been good...
...thermogram left little doubt. The picture of the left breast came out lighter than normal; the temperature was about 3° higher than in the other breast. Surgery proved that the lump was cancer. A thermogram of another patient, a 68-year-old man with arteriosclerosis, showed his right leg black from the knee down. Its temperature was below normal. The patient had a blocked artery, was dangerously close to gangrene...
...earshot of the crowded cells, are a favorite instrument of terror. Three firing-squad walls at La Cabaña are in use at peak periods, and, according to an ex-soldier, "the executions were done practically pursuing the condemned man with shots . . . Many times, one wounded in a leg would try to escape. Then he would have to be killed like an animal. That's the way it was at La Caba...
...informal conference was suggested by Sukarno, who was reclining in Japan on the first leg of a round-the-world holiday. Though the invitation was somewhat startling, Abdul Rahman responded quickly, flew off to Tokyo for two lengthy closed-door sessions with his old adversary. Before long, they were laughing and joking loudly. Between chuckles, they agreed to a "cease-fire" that would end "acrimonious attacks and disparaging references" against each other. Promising to settle outstanding problems in "a spirit of neighborliness," the two leaders scheduled a foreign ministers' conference this week among their two nations and the Philippines...
...enough, did the cooking; Ned served his mother as a messenger boy, delivering bonds and other securities to Hetty's out-of-town brokers. The richest woman in America bought her children's clothes from an old-clothes dealer. When Ned developed an infection in one leg, Hetty tried to have it treated without charge at a succession of public clinics. The leg finally had to be amputated, and Hetty had it buried in the family plot (where it was joined by the rest of the body 47 years later...