Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Turning a Page. Winding up the first leg of his trip, the President flew to Townsville on Australia's northeastern coast to attend church, then flew into Manila to join Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the heads of state and Foreign Ministers of the six other nations attending the conference. The Philippine capital had a bright, brushed-and-combed look for his arrival: most of the potholes on main avenues had been filled; the pimps, prostitutes and "bini boys" (homosexuals) had been hustled out of sight; Malacañang Palace had been refurbished; and the aging Manila Hotel...
...said. "But we could not get to her because there were other children trapped near by and if we moved anything, it would have collapsed on them. We could not rescue that little girl, who said her name was Katherine." Another rescuer, choking with sobs, had to break the leg of one small boy to free him. One miner found the bodies of Teacher David Beynon and five students. "David was clutching the five little children in his arms," he said, "as if to protect them...
Miss Spring was taken to the Misericordia Hospital in the Bronx in critical condition. The accident has left her paralyzed below the waist. Doctors operated to restore the nerves controlling her leg muscles, but they will not know how successful they were for another three or four weeks. At that time she will be moved to either the University Health Center or the Massachusetts General Hospital...
...good his promise to return to the Philippines, Marcos won his second Silver Star. Singlehanded, he stood off a 50-man Japanese patrol; when his submachine-gun fire drove them off, Marcos pursued them alone for two miles?despite the fact that he had taken a bullet in the leg...
...Running hard and neck-and-neck, the two sophomores clicked off a 4:40 opening mile and a 4:45 second mile. McKusick, who had never even been challenged in any of his races up to that time, was hard-pressed to hold the pace. He took a severe leg cramp after three miles, and Hardin just breezed in from there...