Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...massacre it still has an inescapable presence. "I always think of those days," says a middle-aged Palestinian man who lost his wife and five children in the killings. "But I cannot think too much." The man has a piece of shrapnel in his skull and another in his leg from the bombs that exploded during the siege of Beirut. He now tends a small clothing store with his sole surviving relative, his father. Says the son: "When I think of the killings, I am afraid that it could happen again. If I remember too much, I want to leave...
...that was more than unhappy. His father was a railway electrician, his mother was a shorthand typist, and he grew up in a poor, row-house neighborhood in the London suburb of Dagenham. But poverty was not the problem: it was a clubfoot and a skinny, slightly shorter left leg, which sent him in and out of hospitals from the age of two weeks on. "Psychologically it was made harrowing by the fact that my parents felt guilty about it," he says. "That made me feel as if I had done something wrong. Years later my mother quite honestly said...
...torture and murder of the daring underground guerilla a leader, Jean Moulin. That outrage above all others came to symbolize the Nazi brand of terror, as Moulin emerged from his last harrowing session with Barbie, an eyewitness recalled that "he had been beaten terribly, he was all bruises, a leg was sort of trailing behind him. He had been very neatly destroyed...
...also paid a price for the Berlin episode. Special Forces Staff Sergeant Jay Thomas Stanley, a communications specialist, was wounded in the left leg by guerrilla ground fire while flying in a helicopter near the border of Usulután, about seven miles from Berlin. At first, U.S. officials maintained that Stanley was on a "training mission." Later, however, the U.S. embassy in the capital of San Salvador announced that Stanley's immediate superior had been relieved of duty for ordering the sergeant to act in violation of congressional strictures that forbid advisers to enter Salvadoran combat zones...
...surely persist, but Phoolan may be shedding her image as India's deadliest woman. Two weeks ago, her gang encircled a bicyclist near the Chambal River. Phoolan scolded her victim for traveling alone in such dangerous country and, when she learned that he had lost part of a leg in the 1971 war with Pakistan, gave him $20 and sent him home with greetings for his family...