Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Christmas, Tuesday, Dec. 26, was what police wearily call a "typical" day in U.S. cities-perhaps a cut too typical. In Nashville, Tenn., armed robbers held up two of the area's banks. In Chicago, one of the city's 50 aldermen was shot twice in the leg by thugs as he walked the South Side streets, and, just three miles away, another alderman barely escaped from robbers by locking himself inside his garage and screaming for help. New York...
...Where you from?" he inquired, of another man, whose skull was fractured. Staring at the ceiling, the man replied: "I don't know." Turning to the other side of the aisle, Romney found a Marine whose right leg had been amputated. "Do you have a girl friend?" he asked. The Marine said flatly: "Yes." Then Romney started to greet some Vietnamese patients, but when told they were captured Viet Cong, he turned away...
...that combine a progestin (a synthetic that acts like a pregnancy hormone) with a minute quantity of estrogen react as though they were "a little bit pregnant." Changes in the blood resemble those of pregnancy-including, for some women, an increased tendency for blood clots to form in inflamed leg veins. From there, they may travel to the lungs. A committee on drug safety studied every suspected case it could find in Britain and concluded that a woman taking such pills "incurs a slightly increased risk of developing thromboembolic disorders, but that risk is small, and less than the risks...
Even the Beatles had to pay $50 apiece to get in-as John Lennon and George Harrison did to give a leg-up to the annual Paris gala for UNICEF. And even the Beatles had competition from such lens lizards as Marlon Bran do, Fernandel, Victor Borge and Ravi Shankar. The main attraction for the photographers was still Liz and Richard Burton, costumed respectively as a molting ostrich and a grandfatherly hippie. So magnetic were the Burtons that the wife of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou surrendered her seat next to them for a few minutes so that Actress Jeanne Moreau...
Cheese Merchant's Daughter. Christiansen business got its start in Billund during the early 1930s when his father, a carpenter unable to find work in the depressed village, began making wooden toys in his workshop. Naming his enterprise Lego, a contraction for the Danish leg godt (meaning play well), Ole Kirk Christiansen peddled his toys by bicycling about in the surrounding countryside. When Godtfred reached 14 he dropped out of the village school to join his father, after World War II helped swing Lego into the manufacture of plastic toy animals...