Word: legging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...regular procedure in 1967, when only 37 operations were performed. Since then some 300,000 to 400,000 have been carried out in the U.S. alone, and the 1978 total is expected to top 75,000. The operation involves taking lengths of vein from a patient's leg and stitching them to the aorta and to coronary arteries so that blockages are bypassed. The surgery demands the most skillful surgical teamwork, commonly takes as long as five hours and can cost $12,000 or more...
...created by a ski club-and Phil and Steve began skimming down the slopes at the age of seven. As they developed, they became their own best coaches. Then, at 16, Phil suffered a setback when a freak avalanche buried him to the waist and broke his right leg. One year later he fractured the leg a second time while clowning around on a children's slide. Within 18 months, however, Mahre had recovered sufficiently to place a respectable fifth in the giant slalom in Innsbruck...
Cooper turned in another spectacular performance in the 400-yd. medley relay, where he split a blazing 48.76 for the butterfly leg. The Crimson team of Geoff Seelen, Tuomo Kerola, Cooper and Julian Mack finished 22nd-in 3:27.53, which was just a few hundredths of a second off their time at Easterns...
...part of the season comes after the trip, when the racquetmen return to Cambridge and gear up for the Eastern League schedule, which begins April 7. Last year's squad went 1-3 against Southern teams, but nabbed league opponent Navy, 6-3, on the return leg and went on to finish 7-2 in the league, to tie for second behind league champ Princeton...
...from the beginning; if he did not die on the cross and rise again and go to heaven to prepare a place for us; if he is just a man, then he is a fake and a fraud and Christianity doesn't have a leg to stand...