Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the first touch of warm weather, the mini has sprouted throughout the Sunbelt. Sightings of audacious creatures with never-ending legs have occurred in Southern California, Texas and Florida, while in New York City and Chicago, spangled and poufed little nighttime numbers are hitting the dance floors. Unlike the brassy '60s mini, these sporty skirts are practicing a subtle restraint. In fact, many of those for daytime wear are just knee skimmers, and even the more risque are hiked but a few inches above the knee. Designer Donna Karan insists that none of her short skirts should be sold...
Both Jockey Chris McCarron, 32, and Trainer Jack Van Berg, 50, are accomplished men who lacked only racing's crowning credit. McCarron felt blessed to be on any horse in any race. Last October he broke his leg four ways in a fearsome crack-up at Santa Anita, and when Alysheba commenced clipping Bet Twice's heels with three-sixteenths of a mile to go, the rider looked sure to take another fall. "I thought I was gone," he said. Somehow McCarron was still astride and suddenly even ahead. "C'mon, wire," he prayed. "Quick...
...South African Transport Services workers. Nearly 60 railway cars, mostly on commuter trains from the huge black township of Soweto outside Johannesburg, were fire bombed last week, and many others were stoned. Several passengers were injured, and one young black was shot and wounded in the leg, reportedly as he tried to hurl a flaming torch into a railway car. The strike, which started a month ago in a minor dispute between the Transport Services and a single driver, quickly spread to depots all over the region. In addition, a postal worker strike in the Johannesburg and Soweto area...
...basketball season was horrendous," McBride continues. "I didn't go home for Thanksgiving. I didn't go home for Christmas until Christmas Eve, but I really wanted to play. By the end of the season I'd developed stress fractures in my leg...
...Saturday's match had value, it was as a Practice--a bit more intense than most, but just a bit--and a preparation for the last leg of the season. Parsons Field is made of artificial turf, and the Crimson (a natural grass team) will have to cope with turf against Brown...