Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious difficulty, Ndongo moved into the President's office, after doing his best to assure himself of military support. The assurances proved illusory. As Macias now tells it, Ndongo became so frightened when Macias returned that he leaped from the office's window and broke a leg. Ibongo, also in the office, was arrested. The coup, without a leg to stand-on, collapsed...
...meantime, astrologers must continue to uphold the fancy that particular planets influence particular facets of human personality or specific events. Even under these ground rules, there are so many variables and options to play with that the astrologer is always right. Break a leg when your astrologer told you the signs were good, and he can congratulate you on escaping what might have happened had the signs been bad. Conversely, if you go against the signs and nothing happens, the astrologer can insist that you were subconsciously careful because you were forewarned...
Mantle believed it. He underwent surgery five times to remove torn cartilage from his knees and bone chips from his right shoulder. For eight seasons he had to bind each leg from ankle to thigh with 7-ft. strips of foam-rubber bandages "to hold things together." Even so, in his final years, he was reduced to hobbling around the field like a cart horse. And at the plate, each time he swung the bat he noticeably winced and grunted with pain...
Later, he and Toby Gerhart netted the only Harvard sweep of the afternoon in the 200-free. In the first leg of the final relay, Cahalan built a four-yard lead over Bob Whitney before Yale captain and anchor-man Robin Waples rallied...
Another Olympian, Dave Johnson, swam the 200-free in a quick 1:47.5 to nip Harvard's Dave Powlison, captured a second in the medley, and did a fast third leg in the final relay...