Word: legging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wood is not relaxing, however. His life seems fragile. As a teenager, he spent 15 months in hospital after a car crash that left him with one leg shorter than the other; drafted into the army, he was accidentally shot in the back. In 1969 he had a major cancer operation. "I have apprehended death. It releases vitality." Now he is pacing himself like a champion aiming for a final thrust at supremacy. "I hate being called 'in fashion.' I've earned my success," he says. 'I've been 22 years in this business...
School committee chairman John J. McDonough was elected to his sixth term, finishing second, but Ellison, facing charges of alleged misuse of school department funds and hampered by a broken leg, was unable to ward off the challenge of Palladino, an outspoken busing...
...poor sister, whose right leg is amputated at the thigh, was forced to submit at knife point, with her two-year-old daughter sleeping in the next room...
When she tried to resist, the rapist stabbed her in the stump of her leg and knocked out a front tooth. He ripped out the phone and took her crutches and broke them before he left. She had to crawl with her one leg down the corridor of her apartment house at least 50 ft. before she found a neighbor home to summon the police...
...Things broke down in the second half but there was no excuse for the letdown," Saunders said, who sat out most of the second half when he got leg cramps. "They began to work the ball a lot better up the middle. I don't know about anyone else, but I was tired and couldn't perform like I should have," Saunder said...