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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winning time of 48.20 seconds is the second-fastest 100-yd. backstroke swim of all time. Had the Germantown, Penn., native swam the race one day earlier, it would have been an American record, but Stanford's Jay Mortensen set the new mark of 47.91 in his leg of the 400 medley relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming's David Berkoff | 4/7/1987 | See Source »

...addition, Findley's split of 58.46 in the backstroke leg of the relay dropped her school record mark by over .5 of a second. The swim gave all four honorable mention All-America standing as well...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Aquawomen Take 25th Spot in NCAAs | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

Other less heralded players have fought personal battles to get to this championship. They are perhaps epitomized by defenseman Butch Cutone. The Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 1984, a leg tumor felled the Arlington product his sophomore year...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Tourney Cure-All | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

...director sits in a chair, watching the action on a closed-circuit television monitor and rumbling orders into a microphone. The jauntiness of his warm-up suit is belied by the clear plastic tube that runs from his nose, behind his ears, down his chest and along his leg to an oxygen tank, a last-ditch defense against the emphysema that has plagued him for decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: John Huston Raises The Dead | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

Sometimes a cellmate shared the tiny space, but that was not always a good * thing. "Once they put in a tough young man who said he was convicted of spying for China," Begun said. "He threatened me and then beat me up." Begun pulled up a leg of his trousers to display a scar left from the beating. The guards, he said, ruled it a fight and punished both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union A Day in the Depths of the Gulag | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

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