Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...captured animals, which weigh up to 2,900 lbs., are rolled onto sleds, hoisted with ropes into a truck and transferred into stockade-like holding pens. Sometimes they revive unexpectedly; last year Coetsee was gored in the leg. But most can be hand fed in the holding pens within a few days. And rhino calves, Coetsee reports, like to be tickled...
...equally slender instructors. At the ten Women at Large salons, from Canada to Tennessee, customers are encouraged to relax and think positive. Clients weigh an average of 175 lbs., and the instructors are equally full framed. Each Women at Large gym sells a line of stylish leotards and leg warmers in hot pink and other fashionable colors. The sizes, of course, are suited to women who weigh up to 450 lbs. The company is now marketing a one-hour workout video featuring heavier women. Price...
...Glass recounted the story later, the first challenge was to shed his chains. Glass, 36, found that when he made a fist, he could wriggle out of the wrist binding, but the leg chain was trickier. With pieces of thread shredded from his blindfold, Glass bound links of the chain together, and over a period of days fooled his guards into loosening the tether. On the first night that he could pull free, Glass waited until he could hear the snores of his guards. Loosening the chains, he slipped onto the balcony of the high-rise building where...
...registered nurse, may have saved her daughter's life by wrapping herself around the seat to protect her child from the flames. The mother died in the crash along with Cecilia's father Michael, 32, and six-year-old brother David. Cecilia suffered a concussion, a broken leg and collarbone, and third-degree burns on her arms and hands, but is expected to recover...
Steadiness may be a characteristic but not consistency: Watson's war wound, sustained in Afghanistan, wanders from shoulder to leg, depending on the plot. Holmes has a "catlike love of personal cleanliness," yet he keeps his "tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper," and unanswered letters "transfixed by a jerk-knife into the very center of his wooden mantelpiece...