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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most remarkable fact about St. John's skiing career is that she has had an artificial leg since she was five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Artificial Leg Doesn't Keep Freshman Off the Ski Slopes | 10/7/1982 | See Source »

...leg or a breast?" she asked naughtily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princess From Hollywood | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...Princess Stéphanie, her 17-year-old youngest child, from the driver's-side door (leading to speculation, eventually squelched, that the underage and unlicensed Stéphanie had been driving). Firemen extricated Princess Grace. The first confusing bulletins from the palace spoke only of a broken leg, but she never regained consciousness, and a brain scan showed irreparable damage from the stroke and her injuries. She died the next day, at 52, after Rainier and their older children, Princess Caroline, 25, and Prince Albert, 24, agreed to the removal of a life-support system. At week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Princess From Hollywood | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...books, one of them an idolizing biography of his older (by 16 years) brother Ernest; by his own hand; in Miami Beach. His father and sister, as well as his brother, killed themselves in the face of deteriorating health. After five operations this year to stave off leg amputations from diabetes-induced circulatory problems, Leicester shot himself in the head. Two decades earlier he wrote of his brother's suicide: "Like a samurai who felt dishonored by the word or deed of another, Ernest felt his own body had betrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 27, 1982 | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...altogether silly note, several male high schoolers at the summer session did their best to uphold the fine traditions of Camp Harvard by opening a women's leg shaving service in their Weld Hall suite. The Weld Penthouse Shaving Society was founded on the premise that some female students were "too lazy" to take care of the job themselves, and it was apparently well-received by amused Weld women. One shaver said that he and his associates had provide their non-pront service to at least 20 customers...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: What You Missed | 9/17/1982 | See Source »

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