Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAJOR JAMES KASLER, ace U.S. Air Force pilot, flew back into danger to help a buddy, and was last heard reporting: "My leg is broken." See THE WORLD...
...week, and Student-Store Clerk Lana Phillips, 21, fell wounded within seconds of each other. At Sheftall's jewelers, Manager Homer Kelley saw three youths fall wounded outside, was helping to haul them inside when Whitman zeroed in on the shop. Fragments from two bullets tore into Kelley's leg. Windows shattered. Bullets tore huge gashes in the carpeting inside. North of the tower, Associated Press Reporter Robert Heard, 36, was hit in the shoulder while he was running full tilt. "What a shot!" he marveled through his pain...
...minutes later, he got up, and, along with more than 20 others and three police cars, completed the first leg of a peace walk from Boston to Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod. The first day had been uneventful--that is, the marchers had been jeered everywhere they went; they had been cussed, called cowards, and belted just a few times with eggs and tomatoes. None of this was unexpected; it's part of the routine of peace marches, and those who participate in the demonstrations understand it well...
This is Cash Bentley's race against time, and he "ran it alone, but it was extraordinary to see this man of forty surmount so many obstacles so gracefully." At one party, he fails to clear a chest and slams to the floor, breaking his leg. He recovers, a morose and different man. Late one night at home, he is obsessed with running the race again. He hands the revolver to his wife, who is unfamiliar with it. With a hurried instruction about the safety catch, he is off. She shoots him dead in mid-air over the sofa...
...size made balance precarious, and its tenderness made walking painful. The withering of the foot caused a withering of the calf and sometimes dangerously distorted the curve of the spine and the position of vital organs. The Chinese believed, however, that by shifting muscular strain from the lower leg to the hip region, the process considerably increased the size of a woman's thighs and buttocks and permanently strengthened the pelvic muscles, alterations much appreciated by Chinese...