Word: legging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laryngitis-ridden Dave Eaton missed the game entirely for the Crimson and a number of Harvard's key players battled bothersome leg problems. Mauro Keller-Sarmiento came back after missing two games but still ran somewhat gingerly on a tender ankle that a cut up, muddy field made even more of a handicap...
Buffy (played appealingly by Kathleen Seller) breaks her leg playing soccer, and cancer is discovered. She is bright and tough-minded, and she fights back after her leg is amputated by trying to learn everything about her disease. Against the advice of a senior associate, her doctor (Marsha Mason) conducts what amounts to a seminar on cancer for her, through the months of harrowing chemotherapy that she undergoes. Most of what the girl learns is frightful, but she does not take fright. A strong friendship develops between the hollow-eyed teenager and the doctor who tries to save...
...terrible cycle of family tragedies shattered whatever strength Joan could muster: two brothers-in-law assassinated, her husband's near fatal plane crash, Chappaquiddick, which was followed a month later by a third miscarriage, then her son's leg amputation for cancer at twelve. She attempted a succession of cures: reviving a music career that had faltered, then psychiatrists, alcoholism sanitariums, even megavitamin therapy...
Attempts to impose further controls now seem inevitable. The Federal Reserve and West Germany's Bundesbank, which are leading the drive to put Eurocurrencies in leg irons, have already asked major countries to impose reserve requirements on foreign deposits with their banks, even if they are branches located outside the country. In addition, governments of ten leading industrial nations are trying to force all banks to show exactly how much money they have lent out abroad...
...DiMaggio): "I had charley horses in both legs and the one in my right leg hurt like fury...They beat us, 10-5...I turned and started for the dugout. I guess I was limping pretty badly. "I'll never forget that crowd. It was standing and roaring--like one man...There were more than 30,000 people giving an ovation to a guy who tried to beat them...