Word: legging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even worse, Jiggetts--who played a tough defensive game despite the second goal--broke his leg in a collision with Tiger Scott Addis...
...finally got paid ($1.5 million, to be exact) to thumb his nose at the world and, like some aging belligerent artiste at a cocktail party, to eventually become a public bore. Not that the script--running from saccharin to soporific to just plain stupid--gives the hefty Brando any leg up. Not does the film's only female presence, a cattle baron's educated, sensitive, bored and basically horny daughter who sums up her view of the prairie with a quote from Samue Johnson: "A blade of grass is a blade of grass; show me a human being...
That was certainly evident in the area of foreign policy. On the last leg of Schlesinger's trip, an interpreter made a possibly telling slip by announcing: "We welcome Dr. Kissinger." Startled for a moment, Schlesinger smiled and replied, "He isn't here." It soon became clear, however, that Schlesinger's high-level hosts knew their Washington Who's Who. In Peking, Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying and Foreign Minister Ch'iao Kuan-hua expressed their scorn for the Secretary of State. They denounced Soviet-U.S. detente as "appeasement" caused by a "Munich mentality...
...that contemporary doctors (and their lawyers) may especially appreciate. In 1856, while he was practicing law in the Springfield, Ill., area, the future President was asked by two physician friends to defend them in a malpractice suit brought by an elderly man whom they had treated for a leg fracture. Though the break eventually knitted, the limb was slightly shorter than before. Briefed by the doctors on the difference age makes in the brittleness and healing of bone, Lincoln dramatically demonstrated the point in court with broken chicken bones. Then Lincoln turned to the plaintiff and said, "Mr. Fleming, instead...
...month courtship. The lightning-fast merger has now fallen apart, and last week relatives of both Christina, 25, and Alexander, 31, revealed that the pair had agreed to a divorce. Not all Christina watchers were surprised. After a motorcycle spill had hospitalized Andreadis with a broken leg last August, his wife came by to autograph the cast. Her inscription: "Bon voyage, Alexandras, better luck next time...