Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artillery found the range. When the smoke cleared, the Communists were in full flight, and 220 Viet Cong dead littered the ground. Under a rubber tree, guarding the body of his slain platoon leader, was Private B. C. Miller of Brisbane. Wounded in the face, shoulder and leg, Miller had lapsed into unconsciousness only to be awakened by a Viet Cong trying to tug off his boots. "Bug off!" Miller shouted at the startled Red, who promptly complied...
Suddenly, ground fire thudded into Kasler's Thunderchief, crippling it. He bailed out, his parachute deployed, and he floated down near a village. Only a brief message came from his beeper radio: "My God, my leg is broken." Despite a major search by nearly 50 aircraft for eight hours, Kasler was not seen again; and Hanoi later gleefully announced that he had been captured...
...white spinal cord continued to pulsate regularly, but there was no assurance that Hoi Pham would ever move her limbs again - until the surgeons gave a sharp tweak to her left leg. It kicked up smartly...
Competition had not even begun at Portillo when disaster hit the U.S. team. Zipping down a slope at 60 m.p.h. in practice, Kidd lost his balance, skittered 200 yds., and snapped both bones in his right leg. Colorado's Jim Barrows injured a knee and an elbow, had to be scratched from the men's downhill; Idaho's Walter Falk fell during the race and suffered a concussion. The bright young star of the women's team, California's 16-year-old Penny McCoy, did give the U.S. one medal - its only one -when...
...talent in horses that other trainers had given up on. In 1963, he invested $125,000 of Gedney Farm's money in a promising colt named Gun Boat-plus a so-so horse named Gun Bow that was thrown in to sweeten the deal. Gun Boat broke a leg...