Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday, Harvard's Andy Janfaza scored the game-winning goal off a pass intended for his winger, Steve Armstrong. Instead of landing on Armstrong's stick, Janfaza's pass bounced off an RPI defenseman's leg and into...
...Armstrong, on the mend, are at Calgary and ready to race.) Then only an hour before she was to race in the downhill, Team Veteran Pam Fletcher, the last realistic hope for a top-15 showing, collided with a course worker on a practice run and broke her leg...
...until the bad breaks began to overwhelm the bad sports did a few graceful U.S. instincts take hold. Downhill Racer Pam Fletcher, 25, missed her precious chance, when she crashed the day before the event into a skiing maintenance worker ("like hitting a tree") and broke her leg. After a brief cry, Fletcher was smiling again. "You can't have everything, you know," she said. "Where would you put it?" No American man or woman had ever finished as high as sixth in an Olympic luge, and when Bonny Warner moved up from the eighth position on her final...
...elegant, fur-clad woman sports a bloody animal paw worn as an earring and a steel trap as a brooch. Her picture is accompanied by this warning: THE LEG HOLD TRAP -- FOR ANIMALS THAT DON'T GET STRANGLED, BEATEN, GASSED OR ELECTROCUTED. That poster is part of a campaign by Britain's animal lovers to publicize the inhumane manner in which many fur coats are produced...
...government is expected to introduce a law this spring requiring coats made from lynx, coyote, wolf, bobcat or fox to carry a label stating that the fur comes from "animals commonly caught in leg-hold traps." The British Fur Trade Association said it was not overly worried, since the law applies only to skins of wild animals and some 85% of all skins sold in Britain are farm- bred. But the B.F.T.A. complained that the move could hamper its research "into humane trapping methods...