Word: legging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Springfield grabbed a 7-0 lead by up-setting Harvard's 400-yard medley team on a fast, come-from-behind anchor freestyle leg. Then Springfield's Phil Daly held off Harvard's fast-closing Jim Soubold to capture the 200-yard freestyle in a slow 1:53.5. Harvard dropped its third consecutive event when Phil Chase was barely nosed...
...Corris' performance in the 200-yard breaststroke almost made the crowd forget Fowler's absence. He pulled away steadily and glided to an eight-yard victory in 2:21.7. Corris also was timed unofficially in 1:02.5 for his 100-yard leg in the medley relay...
...Crimean hospital, Alexander came across a dying army officer who closely resembled him, even down to a scar on the leg. When the soldier died, Alexander's physician allowed the body to decompose just enough to blur its features. Meanwhile Alexander took to his bed, ostensibly with malaria or typhoid. When the time was ripe, the corpse was brought up to the Emperor's room in a covered bathtub; Alexander was smuggled out the same way to a yacht belonging to the first Earl of Cathcart, former British Ambassador to Russia and a close friend of Alexander...
When he began to feel pain, coldness and weakness in his left leg, the 65-year-old amputee recognized all too well the classic symptoms of hardening of the arteries. The disease that had already claimed his right leg was now attacking his left. As a last resort, two young doctors from the New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn suggested trying a new surgical technique that they had only tested on animals and human cadavers. Their method, they said, might save the leg...
...time Huang and Li were ready to operate, the temperature of Liang's severed foot had fallen 15° lower than that of its unaffected mate. Quickly, both foot and leg stump were carefully cleansed. An anticoagulant salt solution was forced through the foot's major arteries to flush small blood clots and other circulatory blocks. The lower ends of the two leg bones, the tibia and fibula, as well as some of the talus or anklebone, were trimmed, and two stainless-steel nails were driven up through the heel into the tibia (see diagram). With his ankle...