Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mead and now a professor of anthropology at Amherst College, and other alumnae point to their living arrangements as a symbol of the disadvantages Radcliffe students confronted. "We had to live in the [Radcliffe] Quad, and there was no transportation. But we took it for granted and developed strong leg muscles. Now you can't get anyone to live there unless you provide transportation...
...mere hint of a comeback sent TV crews and reporters scurrying in pursuit of the aging superstar. After all, when he was retired ten months ago because of a leg injury, John Henry had won a record $6.5 million, $2.3 million more than his closest competitor. Now comes the news that the 1981 and 1984 Horse of the Year is in training again at Hollywood Park and will soon be back on the track. The change of heart apparently came last month after John Henry, 11, showed a hankering to race again during a visit to Kentucky's Keeneland race...
...1/2-mile hike at dawn and climaxing in the afternoon with the women's aerobic circuit, WAC in the appropriate acronym. As Offenbach's cancan blares, exercisers WAC out on each of 22 pieces of alternating equipment, moving every 45 seconds from arm weights to a stationary bike to leg presses to the rowing machine. To help the medicine go down, there is often a spoonful of sweetener (not sugar, naturally). After the hike, instructors produce jugs of water, paper cups, sliced oranges and, finally, wet washcloths to wipe sticky fingers. As a refresher after bathhouse treatments, guests find cellophane-packaged...
...After repeated complaints by colleagues about his incompetence, Dr. Jacinto Lopez was stripped of his privileges at Artesia General Hospital in New Mexico. That hardly put an end to his operations. Three years later, in his own meagerly equipped and unsanitary office, Lopez undertook a lower-leg amputation with the help of an untrained assistant. Though the operation was reported, it took the state board of medical examiners six months to investigate and nearly three years to revoke Lopez's license. Meanwhile, Lopez took a standard route out of trouble: he packed his scalpel and moved to another state...
Nipper was under sedation and "in good spirits" Monday, said Pappas, who has performed a 75-minute operation on the pitcher's right leg at the University of Massachusetts in Worcester...