Word: legging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rose at 5 a.m. in order to squeeze in five hours?eight to ten miles?in the water each day, supplemented by thrice-weekly workouts in the weight room. She even turned a bad break into a boon. Last fall she fractured her right leg playing on a swing. Outfitted with a fiber-glass cast, she went back into the water. Unable to use her legs, she swam for six weeks using just her arms and shoulders; the strength gained from hauling a useless leg through lap after lap resulted in dramatically faster times in the butterfly and breast stroke...
...liable for their injuries (a verdict awarding $1.5 million to a Vermont skier was upheld by the State Supreme Court), and outdoorsmen who camp in the vicinity of Yellowstone National Park's bears are, when attacked, trying to lay the rap on the Park Service. A camper received leg wounds from one of the bears against which the park constantly warns with signs, brochures and general publicity; the victim argued that the Park Service was negligent not to warn more sternly, more thoroughly, more precisely. The Government won that case, but an $87,417 judgment to another victim...
...softball and baseball, weekend jocks fracture ankles and dislocate shoulders sliding into bases, their leg muscles get strained from sprinting, and shoulder muscles tear from pitching. "Throwing one's arm out" is no mere figure of speech. Dr. James Purdy, emergency-room physician at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, recalls one softball player who threw the ball so hard he shattered his upper arm bone. A hard-hit ball can have a shattering effect of its own when hand-eye coordination fails...
...damage tends to occur from the ground up. A typical distance runner's foot strikes the ground 1,000 times a mile each seven to ten minutes, and the force of impact is about three times his weight. The shock wave travels from heel through ankle to lower leg, knee, upper leg, hip and lower back. Ill effects are legion. Every runner sooner or later is likely to suffer from a sprained or twisted ankle, knee inflammation, stress fracture of the leg bone, shin splints, hamstring pulls, low-back pain, heel pain or blood blister of the toes. Says...
...political disgrace in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to make a remarkable comeback; of heart disease; in Peking. Lo was an early victim of the militaristic Red Guards, who led him to attempt a suicide jump from a besieged building. His literal fall from power broke only a leg but sidelined him until 1975, when he reappeared first with a minor military post, then on the Communist Party's Central Committee...