Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cell, by slashing at one wrist with a safety razor. He bled only a little. Then, just after midnight, the state of Georgia undertook to kill him. The 39-year-old murderer, looking scared, was strapped into the electric chair, electrodes fastened to his shaved head and shaved right leg. Superintendent Ralph Kemp counted to three, a volunteer executioner pushed a button, and 2,080 volts, 20 times the charge in a household socket, coursed through Stephens for two full minutes...
...friends at the Loeb, your attention we beg, Don't let Beckett prevent you from breaking a leg. For Ozment who o'ersees the vaunted CUE guide. Don't cower--go on, be subjective, be snide. If professors don't like what you say of their course. One look at their students will rid their course. One look at their students will rid their remorse. For Sociology youngsters Skocpol and Starr. Tenure--so close and yet ever so far. And to Carlo Rubbia we must give our praise. For chasing those atoms for days and for days. Now Georgi, Glashow...
...plane had been airborne no more than 15 minutes when the men took control of the aircraft and ordered the pilot to turn the Airbus toward Iran. One Kuwaiti was reportedly shot and wounded in the leg during the brief scuffle. Tehran has gained a reputation as a haven for air pirates ever since three terrorists diverted...
HOSPITALIZED. John C. Stennis, 83, Mississippi Democratic Senator and dean of the upper house who eleven years ago survived a mugger's bullet; in satisfactory condition after the amputation of his left leg at the thigh because of an inoperable malignant tumor; at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington...
...Martha Layne Collins, 47, Governor of Kentucky; to remove a 1.2-in. by 0.2-in. sliver of glass that had lodged in her small intestine; in a private clinic; in London. Collins was in the British capital with other members of the National Governors' Association on the first leg of a ten-day European trip to study the effects of acid rain; her husband suggested that the glass she swallowed may have been in a meal she ate while aboard a Pan American World Airways jet en route to England. Pan Am said that it strongly doubted that this...