Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...made a tough decision. "The mother is in the way, O.K.?" said intern Daniel Allen. "We're going to take a chain saw through the body to get to him." Even after that macabre operation, the boy was still trapped. Only when trauma surgeon James Betts amputated his right leg could Julio be freed. "He was moving and crying out," Betts explained later. "We couldn't just leave him there...
Some soldiers make immediate and tragic exits. Bill Haneke is energized by President John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural speech calling for a new generation to bear any burden, meet any hardship. He returns from Southeast Asia minus a right leg, a left foot and an eye. Tommy Hayes, the son and grandson of West Point major generals, rejects the sanctuary of graduate school. In a letter home he writes, "My country has invested a great deal in me as a soldier. I should like to repay that investment." The price is his life, taken in the jungle north...
...human keeper. Unless led away, an orphan will linger by its fallen mother until it collapses from starvation or thirst. And a mature elephant coming across a carcass, even one streaked with vulture droppings, will try to rouse it to life with a gentle prod of its hind leg...
...Crimson plays hard. The Crimson gets the scoring chances. The Crimson still comes up on the short end. And to make matters worse, veteran sweeper Nick Gates had to leave the game early in the second half after suffering a leg injury while going for the ball. His status for tomorrow night's game against Cornell is undetermined...
Bianchi is questionable for the Cornell game, as is injured running back Jim Reidy (ankle) and Bobby Frame (leg). Senior back David Haller is out indefinitely with a broken hand...