Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came in through a side door, accompanied by Tikhonov, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Supreme Soviet Deputy Chairman Vasili Kuznetsov, the new Kremlin leader surprised everyone with his appearance. Pale and looking far older than in his official portraits, Andropov walked with a slow, distinctive gait. He put each leg forward cautiously, his head down as if he were studying the design on the red carpet laid in his path. One guest, a Briton, whispered, "Why, he can hardly see!" Indeed, as Andropov raised his head to face the waiting foreign envoys, his thick bifocal glasses betrayed a vision problem...
Jiangsu's impotence wasn't helped by its travel plans. The team had crossed the continent in less than a week and a half, and last night's exhibition was the squad's ninth game in 11 days. Not only were the Chinese on their last legs, they were on the second-to-last leg of their trip. They close out their American tour tomorrow at Hofstra University in New York...
...district of Los Angeles, derides last week's affair in Washington as "a pacification tactic." In New York City's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, itself a combat zone, Larry Smith is equally acid: "We don't need that statue. We need some jobs." He lost his left leg in Viet Nam, and he believes he was contaminated by the defoliant Agent Orange...
...story doesn't ring true, since she never decides how strongly Marie's development should govern the entire plot. All women eventually get their periods--but they're certainly not all like those of 12-year-old Marie, whose initiation into womanhood begins with blood dripping down her leg...
Extraordinary indeed. Bob Kerrey, 39, a successful entrepreneur, had never held an elected office. His most spectacular achievement came in Viet Nam in 1969: after leading a Navy commando assault in which he lost half of his right leg, Kerrey was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. As a member of the human rights commission in Lincoln, his home town, Kerrey is remembered chiefly for his unsuccessful advocacy of a homosexual-rights ordinance. Moreover, Republican Charles Thone, 58, was the quintessential Nebraskan of his generation, prudently plain-spoken and a bit stolid. He had won four terms in Congress before...