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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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ALSO IN THE HOUSE is Moe Axelrod, the boarder, a small time drifter laden with a heart of coal. His leg was shot off in the Great War, and he is as bitter as we expect him to be: he clumps about the apartment in his double-breasted pinstripe suit and porkpie hat, spouting off a ridiculous agglomeration of cynical street idiom: "You ain't sunburned. You hoid...

Author: By Peter D. Sagal, | Title: Theatre Like It Oughta Be | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

What on earth was half of the Reagan Administration, or what seemed like it, doing in Europe last week while Washington burned? There was Secretary of State George Shultz, arriving in London on the first leg of a five-day fence- mending trip. While in the British capital, he crossed paths with Attorney General Edwin Meese, who had come to urge a meeting of European Community interior ministers to stand tough against terrorism. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had just been in Belgium shoring up U.S. arms-control positions with his NATO counterparts. And at week's end Shultz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Holding Hands in Europe | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

Costello also swam the breaststroke leg of the 200 medley relay, combining with Kaari Reierson, Mary Quinn and Linda Suhs for a winning time of 1:50.31. In the 400 freestyle relay, Costello, Nina Anderson, Molly Clark and Lani Nelson earned second place for the Crimson with a time...

Author: By Joseph Kaufman, | Title: Aquawomen Dip B.U., 166-102 | 12/15/1986 | See Source »

...scabrous press bullpen in a criminal-courts building, out walk a trollop and a policeman adjusting his clothes after what has obviously been a brief but close encounter. Gradually the room fills with journalists who gamble, politicians who steal, gangsters who peddle influence, and an editor who employs leg breakers to circulate his paper. This is a town festering with corruption, and everyone aspires only to scrabble to the top of the dung heap. Life is cheap. When a murderer escapes from the court building's death row, guards outside spray the facade with bullets so wantonly that everyone dives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hello, Sweetheart, Get Me Rethink the Front Page | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

Also returning--and improved--for the Crimson are Amy Hartung, Christine Burns and Nina Simonds. Out most of last season with a broken leg, Julia Trotman has returned this year in prime form...

Author: By Kristin Olson, | Title: Maturing Rookies, Old and New | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

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