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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philip Carey recalls the myths and leg ends surrounding the world of reptiles, and shows film of snakes as they charm and chomp their fellow creatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Jan. 24, 1969 | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...Left-handers are not the only ones who must negotiate a world designed for others. Take, for example, tall people-like myself-who find door lintels conveniently at forehead level, hotel beds several inches too short, and theater seats with just enough leg room to push one's knees into one's face. But that's not the worst of it: we also find that almost all the pretty women are too short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 24, 1969 | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Without Comfort. In the 1969 contest, 309 hardy snowcatters plowed out of Anchorage on the first leg of a threeday, 600-mile trek to Fairbanks. Propelled by tanklike treads and steered by handlebars attached to a pair of front-running skis, most of the 20 makes of snowmobiles in the race were capable of powering through the snow at 80 m.p.h. on a straightaway. The course, however, spiraled up and around the rugged peaks of the Alaska Range at elevations of 3,300 ft. or more. Bone-chilling winds gusted to 70 m.p.h., and the snowmobilers became more concerned with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter Games: The Coldest and Crudest | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

Tire fast life decelerated sharply at 5 a.m. one day in 1952. Gianni was racing to Monte Carlo from a party in Cannes when his car skidded into a meat truck. He spent three months in a clinic in Florence. The accident left him with a stiff right leg-he still limps -but he denies any personal trauma besides distress that "I had not been able to let my friends know I would be late for lunch." Within a year, he settled down in Turin and, at 32, he married swan-necked Princess Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto. As Gianni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A SOCIETY TRANSFORMED BY INDUSTRY | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Playing defense during a Crimson power play, Cavanagh circled behind his net with the puck and skated straight up the ice through four Dartmouth defenders. After splitting the defense, he closed in on goalie Tom Schuster, faked one way, losing his balance, and flipped the puck over Schuster's leg...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Skaters' Late Surge Downs Dartmouth, 6-3 | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

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