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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pueblo had no automatic "destruct" mechanism. As the Koreans swarmed aboard, U.S. Navymen feverishly set fire to the files, dumped documents, shredded the codes, and did their valiant best to wreck the electronic gear with axes, sledge hammers and hand grenades. In the process, apparently, one sailor's leg was blown off and three others were injured. According to a Defense Department official, Bucher's instructions "covered everything except being boarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In Pueblo's Wake | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

...patient out of bed and walking," has become an increasingly familiar refrain of surgeons after virtually every kind of operation. But there seemed to be one obvious exception: if the patient has a broken leg - or, worse, two broken legs - should he not stay in a cast and flat on his back for weeks? No, concluded Orthopedic Surgeon Ernst Dehne of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Memphis; let him start walking as soon as the cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orthopedics: Walking on a Broken Leg | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

Harvard's unit of captain Jeff Huvelle, Baker. Trey Burns, and Dave McKelvey established itself as the second best two-mile relay team in the East with a 7:33.8 clocking. Baker busted open a lead for Harvard with a 1:51.9 second leg, and Burns held ten feet of it for McKelvey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shaw Sets Mile Mark With 4:05.7 at Garden | 1/29/1968 | See Source »

Vernaglia is in "fair condition and resting as comfortably as possible," even though unconscious and on the critical list, a spokesman at Massachusetts General Hospital said yesterday. Pieper was released after treatment for minor leg injuries at Stillman Infirmary...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Two Students Beaten; One on Critical List | 1/15/1968 | See Source »

...sobering digression of the film should especially interest American audiences. Greene interviewed a U.S. fighter-bomber pilot, a major, who had been shot down 11 days previously. The major, with his right leg and left arm severely fractured, lay in a hospital bed, and talked about the war. Nervous, with his face showing the strain, he said he hoped the war could be "terminated"--he spoke almost throughout in military jargon. He said he agreed with the "Kennedy, Fulbright, Mansfield position," that we "need to take another look in regards to our Vietnamese policy." What about draft-card burners...

Author: By Tom Reston, | Title: Inside North Vietnam | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

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