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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought to the scene; their booms poked through the arching lobby windows to lift away the most massive pieces of wreckage. A bulldozer was brought in as well. At one point, an amputation was performed in the lobby: doctors could free one trapped man only by cutting off his leg. On Saturday morning, with the hotel exhibition hall serving as a morgue, the fingerprinting of corpses was under way. Puddles of bloody water covered the lobby floor. Ten survivors were trapped until 6 a.m. The last slab was lifted at 7:45 a.m. Beneath it were 31 bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Night the Sky Bridges Fell | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

...accomplishments, explaining, "She isn't the type who would try to high-hat anyone." A friend recalls an example. When O'Connor was president of Heard Indian Museum, which holds an annual and overcrowded handcraft sale, her son Scott wanted one item badly but had broken his leg in a skiing accident. Instead of using her clout to bypass a long line of buyers, his mother spent several hours sitting on a camp stool to await her turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brethren's First Sister: Sandra Day O'Connor, | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...movies are known for racy scenes, but the sexiest part of For Your Eyes Only may very well be the advertising poster. It is standard Bondage: a cheeky shot of a woman dangling a crossbow in her hand while Roger Moore, as 007, aims a pistol between her calipered legs. While Boston did not go so far as to ban the poster, the editorial Bowdlers at the Globe and the Los Angeles Times deemed the poster suitable for their eyes only and demurely cropped out everything just above the knee. At the Pittsburgh Press, editors actually put a pair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1981 | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...warrant being entrusted with both the Duke of Burgundy and the herald Montjoy. But Isabelle Rosier is an unalloyed delight as the 19-year-old princess Katharine, whom Henry woos with inadequate French even while wearing the correct French motto of the Order of the Garter embroidered on his leg riband...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: More Than a Touch of Harry in the Night | 7/17/1981 | See Source »

...doesn't miss workouts, not ever, though it means spending less time with his family and his girl. And when he's at the gym, he sneers a little inside at those who gossip and horse around when they could be doing flys and bench presses and straight leg raises and squats. By the time he's done, he has to drive home in the right hand lane, at ten miles an hour. "I'm so gone, it's like after sex," he says. "All I have the strength to do is smile." When he gets home...

Author: By William E. Mckibban, | Title: Self-Improvement | 7/14/1981 | See Source »

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