Word: legging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...valuable players robbed them of squad depth vital in face of trouble with fouls. Though the squad had had some good practices during the previous week, they had not played a regular game since the middle of December. The Cliffe's Kathy Fulton was slowed by sprained leg muscles throughout Saturday night's game...
...past few years have been dull for leg watchers, frustrated by loose slacks and droopy skirts that conceal only drab gray and blah beige pantyhose. Suddenly, however, legs are coming alive in the dazzling burst of colors, stripes and patterns that characterizes the new socko look...
...synthetics. They are most frequently worn with cork-soled, open-toed sandals or wedgies, usually to top-or bottom-off jeans or a flared skirt. The most ardent socks supporters seem to be teens and the under-30 set, who love the fun and pizazz of a flashy leg. In Ossining, N.Y., most of the high school girls wear the socks not only in the classroom, but with their gym shorts in physical education classes. They are equally popular in college. Says a Radcliffe student: "I feel bright and pepped up in loud socks. I like to call attention...
Nureyev's determination is nowhere more evident than in class with Stanley Williams, a coach at the School of the American Ballet. Dressed in thick gray leg warmers and a tired white leotard, Nureyev looks sloppier than the rest. A pianist pumps out This Nearly Was Mine while the class practices rapid combination exercises that end in a burst of squeaking slippers. Nureyev finishes last. Working very slowly, he clears an envelope of space round him in which each ringer, each joint, every muscle locates its place. "Keep the arms closer to the body for balance and to project...
...Kippur War, Israel saw an unexpectedly high number of its soldiers fighting personal breakdown, from conversion symptoms (paralysis of a healthy leg, for example) to panic, amnesia and other classic reactions of "battle shock." Some of the effects were new to Israelis. The need to abandon wounded comrades on the field during the heavy and continuous fighting, a denial of the Israeli army's code of behavior, was shattering. One Israeli machine gunner shot down so many Arabs that he fled in panic, obsessed by the idea of a pile of corpses blotting out the sun. Another soldier, unhurt...