Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After the exhilaration of Manila and Cam Ranh Bay, the last leg of what Lyndon Johnson termed his "momen tous journey" to Asia was bound to be anticlimactic. Still, it had its rewards...
...Harvard Theatre Workshop, or HTW) passed out of existence in the Spring of '49. It was subsequently revived as the Harvard Theatre Group (HTG) but again it became defunct when its founders graduated. Consequently the Fall of '53 saw Harvard theatre on what looked to be its last leg...
...weeks the great silver-and-blue jet had chased the sun. Then, carrying Lyndon Johnson on the last leg of his Asian odyssey, Air Force One changed course. Soaring over the slender, gilded spires of Bangkok's temples, it wheeled south for a brief stopover in Kuala Lumpur, was subsequently scheduled to head northeast for Seoul, the last Asian capital on the President's itinerary. Behind lay the summit conference in Manila and Johnson's his toric visit to South Viet Nam, the first trip ever made by a U.S. President to a foreign battlefield save...
Your left leg is numb and you got no feeling in the first three fingers of your right hand. We're suing for a million bucks and we'll settle for a quarter million-tax-free...
Willie plays it noble. "To you gentlemen," he announces in a sepulchral tremolo, "it's just a question of money, but to me it's a personal tragedy." Willie plays it dirty. Before the insurance doctors examine his client, he needles his left leg and right arm with enough novocain to numb a mastodon. Willie plays it go, man, go. Borrowing against his hocus hopes, he picks up a fastback Mustang, a sackful of custom-tailored suits, a foxy set of fox furs for his fat-kneed wife. And when the insurance lawyers are ready to bargain, Willie...