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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...court and back to a makeshift detention center in the nearby village of Dahariya to await trial. In another courtroom, in the city of Nablus, an army prosecutor urged the judge to be lenient with Nasser Zuhadi Kakmeh, 16, because the youth had been wounded in the leg while throwing stones and bottles at security forces and was now repentant. "I want to hear it from you," the judge told the defendant. After a long pause, Kakmeh replied, "I regret what I did. I'll never do it again." His sentence: 45 days in jail and a $193 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Trials and Errors | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...baffled by another vague Gorbachev claim, made during his final press conference, that the Soviets possessed the means to identify the location and megatonnage of land- and sea-based nuclear weapons -- even those deployed on submarines. If the Soviets could indeed pinpoint U.S. subs, they could neutralize a key leg of the U.S. nuclear triad. State Department and Pentagon experts were highly skeptical that the Soviets possessed such technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spirit Of Washington | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...shots rang out. "The Tonton Macoutes and the army were coming back to finish the job, to kill the journalists," said Bentley. "We raced toward the back door of the school, running over bodies as we left. A British reporter in front of me was hit in the lower leg. We were totally defenseless: no guns, just cameras." Still under fire, Bentley scaled a 10-ft.-high cinder-block wall, scrambled over another wall strung with barbed wire and finally escaped down a maze of narrow passages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From the Publisher: Dec. 14, 1987 | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

Smith attempted a pass out from behind the net and banked the puck off the back of Grant Fuhr's leg for a Calgary goal. The greatest machine in hockey, derailed by the misplay of a goon...

Author: By Alvar J. Mattei, | Title: Hockey Goons: Dinosaurs Of The '80s | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

...skate, as in really skate, as in speed-skate down the sides of the rink. They can skate, as in maneuver, as in slip one way, then slide back another. Effortlessly. They can skate, as in dodge one defenseman, as in skip past another, as in soar on one leg up to the goal mouth and slip a shot into...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: They Can Really Skate | 12/12/1987 | See Source »

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