Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That is, if you want star outfielder Ron Gant with a broken leg due to reckless mountain biking. Anyway, his injury happened just after he signed a unguaranteed contract with Atlanta. So the Cost-conscious Braves (owned by Ted Turner) cut him from the roster...
Commissioner Julius Kelley would disagree. "We needed a black on the commission, and we got a good one," he says. Kelley can afford to be generous. He is living proof that cumulative voting's leg up to minorities is color blind. Like blacks, Chilton's white Republicans were hungry political underdogs. They too "plumped" -- and reaped three commissioners' seats...
...majority of injuries were scalp wounds andfacial cuts and bruises. One Harvard students saidhe was maced in the face, but he left to findtreatment elsewhere. Another Harvard student had apossible broken nose, and a girl from Brandeis wasdriven to Stillman with a possible broken leg...
What made the weekend particularly special was: one, the fact that the team was without the services or three of its top players--junior Andrew Rueb (shin splints), freshman Todd Meringoff (groin injury) and Junior Umesha Wallooppillai (leg injury); and two, the fact that Princeton is one of the four or five teams that Harvard is vying with for a spot in the regional playoffs at Harvard...
...year-old woman died of natural causes but in agony nonetheless. She had suffered from arthritis, osteoporosis and malnutrition; her teeth were rotten; and an improperly set broken leg had led to a huge bone abscess. The infant, probably a girl, was malnourished too. Her last weeks had been marked by spinal meningitis and a brain inflammation. The man had been sedentary and overweight; his death at around 50 was sudden, perhaps from a heart attack...