Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's meet, sophomore Meredith Rainey again showed why she is one of the Crimson's top runners in many years. Rainey snagged first place in the 220-and 440-yd. runs, and ran an 880-yd. leg to help Harvard win the two-mile relay...
...Susan Lazarchick, the decision to undergo an experimental knee transplant was frighteningly simple. A benign tumor the size of a grapefruit was rapidly consuming her right knee and shinbone. Doctors had offered her two other options: amputation, or a bone fusion, which would render her stiff-legged for the rest of her life. She chose the rarely performed transplant. Last week Orthopedic Surgeon Richard Schmidt at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia announced that he had transplanted an entire knee -- bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and all -- from an accident victim into the leg of the young...
Last week, twelve months and dozens of battles after she embarked on her campaign, Alice's quixotic crusade seemed close to collapse. Her army of followers, which once numbered several thousand, had been reduced by death and desertion to several hundred. Alice, wounded in the leg by government soldiers, was reported by authorities to be in hiding near the town of Iganga, about 80 miles east of Kampala, the capital. According to the Kampala-based newspaper Munno, the once fearless rebel was afraid that she would be killed if she surrendered to villagers or the army...
...only genre chilled by contemporary sexual skirmishing. In Armyan Bernstein's comedy Cross My Heart, two nice people (Martin Short and Annette O'Toole) endure the Date of Death. He borrows his best friend's car and apartment; one is stolen, the other trashed. She gets a leg cramp while they make out; he sees his shirt get singed on a nearby lamp as they make love. She won't tell him she has a young daughter; he won't tell her he has just lost his job. This sweet, slightly strained film finds knowing laughs in all the frustrations...
With those kind of credentials, the persistent leg injury has proved doubly hard to take. "It's not only physical. It gets you down when the doctor says `one week' five weeks in a row," Pepper says...