Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrities are cadged for autographs, but Bol is forever beseeched just to stand up. "Can't," he demurs occasionally. "Leg broke." When he is on his feet, stares are unavoidable. "I am a good-looking guy," he agrees kindly. "What size shoes do you wear?" strangers wonder. "You want to buy me a pair?" he smiles. They are only 15 1/2s. Bol's ebony brow may appear furrowed, but those are scratches from a puberty rite that, more than the sleeping lion he once killed with a spear, confirmed his courage. He laughs easily when his spindly fingers wrap twice...
...trappers either, unless they are in disguise. The price of fox and muskrat will be down this year, but raccoon will be good, about $20 for a top skin. Trapping is occupation and sport in Maine, and last year 22,089 raccoon were taken. Bean's does not sell leg-hold traps but does sell shotguns, including a Fabio Zanotti twelve gauge...
...despite the switch, Burnes' boat was capsized by a drastic windshift during the first leg, automatically booting Harvard to dead last (16th place) in that race--and dropping the team five points behind B.U. in the overall standings...
...streets of the city's white downtown area and went on a four-hour rampage. Two policemen were stabbed and about a dozen white pedestrians were robbed or beaten, some of them severely. At least ten shops were looted. Police made six arrests and shot one suspect in the leg...
...other option is major reconstructive surgery that would put his leg in a cast for six weeks, render him to crutches for six months and to rehabilitation for an entire year...