Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...translation of The Secret Diaries of Hitler's Doctor, to be published next month, quotes Physician Theo Morell as saying, in a representative entry from Oct. 30,1944, "The Führer confided in me that after this renewed attack of pain the trembling in his leg and hands was much more violent." Pulitzer-Prizewinning Historian John Toland concurred with Irving's disbelief. Said Toland: "Witnesses refer to 'Hitler's right hand, which is useless...
...things weren't supposed to be this easy for the Crimson. A rush of recent mishaps, put Pew out with a knee injury, has kept DenHartog out of games with back problems, haw left Black. Mullen and Clifton bothered with leg injuries, and caused Crimson Coach Catole Kleinfelder to call several J.V. players up to the varsity ranks...
...macabre final scene last Friday evening, televised by closed circuit to more than 30 reporters, Evans was secured in the electric chair, known as "Yellow Mama," at the Holman prison near Atmore, Ala. Two guards pulled straps around his shaved head, attached electrodes to his scalp and leg, and left him rigid in the chair, looking small and pale...
...volts lasted 30 seconds. Smoke and steam rose from his head. A fiery arc shot from beneath the mask that covered his face. Smoke poured from the electrode on his left leg. Through the rain outside came the mournful notes of taps being played on a trumpet by a prisoner in his cell...
...Evans was not dead. The electrode on his leg had burned through the straps and popped off. His body was motionless, but as the wires were reattached, he moved as if he were trying to draw a breath. Then came the second jolt, again for 30 seconds. Still the doctors were unsure that Evans had expired. His lawyers made a final appeal, conveyed by phone to Governor George Wallace, on the ground that the punishment had become intolerably cruel and unusual. Wallace said no. It took one more jolt, another 30 seconds, to make sure that John Evans...