Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...find such an agglomeration of hurlers on one American League team. Nor have the Sox, who now sport the rotation of Clemens-Boyd-Hurst-Seaver-Nipper, boasted such pitching in a decade. One wonders whether Clemens, Boyd and Hurst would have all won 20 games if Hurst's leg and Boyd's head muscles had been in working order earlier in the season...
...Rickover who first grasped the potential of nuclear power at sea and who tugged and cajoled a reluctant Navy to develop and install reactors in submarines. Today "the silent service" fostered by Rickover is the foundation of U.S. sea power, and missile-launching subs make up the least vulnerable leg of the U.S. strategic triad...
...Kabarett Fledermaus (1907), a club by and for the avant-garde. The regularity of its limbs and parts is strict, but as with all the best Wiener Werkstatte work, severity is not carried too far. Six wood spheres, billiard ball-size, tucked under each arm and atop each leg, are a perfect ornamental gesture, precise and machined but irrational...
...room looks like a scene from Fame. About 20 students garbed in dancer chic--leotards, leg warmers, and tights--fling themselves across the room to the rhythm provided by the pianist in the corner. The teacher stops and the students start the dance "one more time" as they wipe the sweat off their brows...
...attempted to rise, but was not able to stir: for as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground . . . I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my armpits to my thighs . . . I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which . . . I perceived to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands...