Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After The Game, Crimson captain Chuck Durst limped slowly to the trainer's room, injured left leg bandaged heavily. The awkward silence in Dillon Field House said it all--there was nothing to say, Harvard had fallen to Yale, 14-0, to finish in a four-way tie for third-place in the Ivy League...
Take placekicker Dave Cody. Never noted for an overwhelmingly strong leg, the Winthrop House senior has successfully converted ten of 12 field goal attempts for a remarkable 83 per cent accuracy rating--second in the NCAA...
...David Gershuni's everyday kind of patient. But the orthopedic surgeon, working early one morning in a large barn at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, was unfazed by his jumbo task: to place a cast around the fractured leg of a twelve-year-old African elephant named Mandavu...
Mandavu had tumbled into the moat around her compound one night and broken two bones of her lower right rear leg. When the leg did not heal, it seemed that Mandavu might have to be put out of her misery-even though she was in the twelfth month of a 21-month pregnancy. So zoo officials decided on an operation that had been performed only once before...
...well, an elephantine undertaking. Mandavu had to be properly fettered, so she could be easily anesthetized with an injection in the rump. Her keepers also had to make sure that when she went to sleep she slumped over on her left side, to expose the injured right leg. Finally, everything had to be done quickly; if Mandavu were kept anesthetized too long, she might suffocate under her own weight...