Word: legging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...somebody's pulling our leg here...
...crews entered the third 500 meters, Harvard's strongest leg, it began to look as if the oarsmen would deliver the knockout punch for win number 27 in the streak. But with 800 meters to go, the oarsmen, for the first time this spring, saw an opponent's boat closing...
Mamiya knew beforehand where the vital coronary arteries were seriously blocked, but he took one final look at the X rays and compared them with what he saw in front of him. Then he proceeded. Taking one piece of vein from the leg, he grafted it to three points on the heart's surface, thus making sequential or "leapfrog" bypasses around two blocked sections of the arteries in a single maneuver. With another piece of the same vein, he made a third bypass...
...blood coursed through the new "arteries," Mamiya checked the connections for tightness and started the final phase of his task. Because the remaining vein segments from the left leg were too narrow, he ordered the right leg opened and its saphenous vein removed. Taking two pieces of this vein, which proved to be of heavier caliber, he anchored them to the aorta; then he attached one to the posterior descending coronary artery, the other to the left anterior descending artery. In effect, he had used the first three bypasses to clear traffic through the clogged local streets-and the aortic...
With just two minutes left to play, the big elephants evened up the score on a badly angled shot from the right side. The ball hit MacGraw's leg pads and bounced past her into the crease. The other replacement, Sue Abkowitz, followed the fluke with a little magic score of her own and the Crimson won their seventh game of the season...