Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...correct; they die quickly. A man with a gimpy leg, evidently the center's undertaker, expertly wraps these two bodies and four others -- the day's dead -- in rags and burlap sacks discarded from rations that came too late. He puts the bundles into a blue wheelbarrow, wheels them out of the compound and down to the banks of the Juba, where they are lowered together into an open grave...
...Harvard, Trotman was also captain of the women's ice hockey team, Horn said. She broke her leg while playing Yale early in her first year, and couldn't play hockey or sail until late that season. In her first race that spring, Trotman sailed the New England Women's Championship in a cast, helping her team qualify for the national competition...
...describes running into a plate glass window and the leg injury that required him to swim for physical therapy. Meanwhile, the sound of breaking glass is heard as the image of his face shatters into jagged, redtipped pieces. This charming trick is repeated not once but twice more as the swimmer and his parents reminisce about his early training...
...says Dave Ash, weight-training coach at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. One technique is to do many repetitions at low resistance, which takes longer to increase strength but vastly improves endurance. As part of her pre-Olympic regimen, Jamaican long jumper Diane Guthrie has been doing 250 leg curls every day wearing 10-lb. ankle weights. The 20-year-old Guthrie, who trained at George Mason, notes that when she slacked off onweight training, she hurt some of her leg muscles...
...level of envy and conflict. Additional squatters whose homes were bulldozed for the fair moved in, swelling the waiting list for El Vacie's promised houses. At the fountain, a fistfight broke out between women jostling for water, and one was admitted to the hospital with a broken leg. "Expo is a disaster for the poor," says Miguel Angel Moreno, a local Human Rights Association volunteer. "It drained money from social programs and doubled our cost of living...