Word: legging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interminable race for the Democratic nomination wound down last week like a 1920s dance marathon. Dazed by months of gladhanding and posturing, the candidates stumbled around in circles. Only the prize sustained them: 486 delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday III, the last leg on the long trail to the Democratic nomination...
...beachhead in the Pacific. He was scared to death. Heavy enemy fire was killing his buddies all around him. When a shell burst near by, he felt an excruciating pain and the sensation of blood pouring down his leg. There was a call for a corpsman, and he was carried to a medical station, where doctors discovered he had indeed been hit-on his canteen. They sent him back out. More shells, more bombs...
...took some tweezers, picked out a few fragments of metal from his face, slapped on some adhesive bandages and sent him back to fight once more. By then, almost his entire company had been wiped out. For the third time, a shell burst near him. It tore off his leg. He did not feel a thing...
...uses an aluminum wrist cane to walk across the expansive living room of his Mercer Island, Wash., home. He walks surprisingly quickly, despite the ar thritis and 22 operations that have left his left leg 1 Yi in. shorter than his right. He cannot stand for more than seven minutes at a time without great pain. Says...
...same time, the group initiated a series of meetings to move forward on the issue. In conversations with President Bok and other high-level University officials, the Black activists explored the idea of a new committee to monitor Harvard's efforts to hire Black faculty and staff. Their leg-work came to fruition this spring when Bok agreed to the creation of an ad hoc group to recommend new ways to better recruit, attract and hold on to Black faculty and administrators...