Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have a heart; second, that it is in need of repair." Kissinger's longtime friend and personal physician, W. Gerald Austen, chief of surgery at Massachusetts General, explained that the operation was to be a triple coronary bypass, in which a major vein from the patient's leg would be used to make detours around the clogged arteries leading to his heart. Kissinger handled the risks diplomatically: he quipped that he was negotiating for "a quadruple bypass-one more than Haig." (Secretary of State Alexander Haig had triple coronary bypass surgery in 1980.) After 4½ hours...
...approach, can do a little vamping and pull on a pair of high-fashion Norma Kamali sweat pants; or buy something oversized from the designer boutique section; or dip into the proud father's closet and come up with some huge smothering sweater that, worn with pants and leg warmers, makes any mother-to-be look like an off-center ballerina on her way home from class...
Cracking jokes about this $12 million "science fantasy adventure" must seem like pulling the leg of a museum dinosaur-an unfairly anarchic response to an enterprise so painstaking, so educational, so forthrightly solemn. Director Annaud even recruited Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape) to devise appropriate gestures for the actors, and Anthony Burgess (Language Made Plain) to create primitive dialects, all heavy on the grunts and gutturals. But jokes will come, especially since Quest for Fire emerges less than a year after Caveman, a goofy romp through prehistory that managed to supply the punch lines to many of Quest...
...addition to the 500. Murrer also runs the anchor leg of the mile relay, and it seems that no matter how great the deficit he inherits, he makes it up, and when given a lead Murrer never relinquishes...
...mile version brought more of the same Harvard freshman Cliff Sheeham, who had already won the mile and finished second in the 1000, ran a strong anchor leg but fell short by that fateful three tenths of a second...