Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marine platoon leaders' class in Quantico, Va., he learned that during World War II, 85% of all company-grade officers in the Corps were killed or wounded. Crippling injury, not death, was what most worried Bobby and his buddies. "I remember saying that if I lost a leg, I would rather be killed. As to the possibility of being paralyzed, well, that was not even open for discussion." Confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, Muller laughs at the memory...
...even the most elementary signals are used by people in different cultures. The happiest of overt American signals, the circled thumb and index finger, unless accompanied by a smile, amounts to an insult in France. The innocent American habit of propping a foot on a table or crossing a leg in figure-four style could cause hard feelings among Arabs, to whom the showing of a shoe sole is offensive...
DIED. Terry Fox, 22, who became a Canadian national hero by running halfway across the country on an artificial leg in 1980, eventually raising more than $20 million for cancer research; of cancer; in Vancouver, B.C. An outstanding soccer and basketball player before he lost his right leg to cancer in 1977, Fox began his "marathon of hope" in St. John's, Nfld., covering 3,317 miles in 4½ months, before the disease, which had spread to his lungs, forced him to abandon the venture near Thunder Bay, Ont. Said he: "I wanted to show people that just...
...lower left leg and right foot of a jogger were severed in a traffic accident early Friday morning near Harvard Square, and a Harvard summer school student has been charged with "operating under the influence of alcohol" and "operating to endanger" in connection with the incident...
...lying in the bushes with his left leg severed at the shin and about ten feet away from him." Bergin said, adding that "his right leg was broken above the ankle and his right foot was partially amputated...