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Word: legging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ball went bouncing from back to leg, everywhere but to the ground," Santos said. "And then I finally saw it hit the ground."CrimsonRobert BracyWATCH THE BALL The Harvard football team broke a four-game losing streak last Saturday, downing the Princeton Tigers, 24-21, at Soldiers Field. The win improved the Crimson's record to 2-1 in the Ivy League and put Harvard back in the Ancient Eight title race...

Author: By Josie Karp, | Title: Gridders Conquer Princeton By 3, 24-21 | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

...story is devoid of scandal and full of heroism. As part of the elite Navy Sea, Air and Land corps (the SEALs), Kerrey got his leg blown off in one exchange but still managed to call for support and command his troops. (Nyhan really loves this story. So does everyone else. You'll hear it about a thousand times over the next 13 months.) He got a Congressional Medal of Honor for it, but he initially turned it down. No kidding. He accepted it later on behalf of his platoon...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: All Style and No Substance | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...Gulf War, Kerrey did not voice principled foreign policy theories, but personal objections--it would be another Vietnam, and no one should have to get a leg blown off. All this is understandable, but it's not presidential...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: All Style and No Substance | 10/24/1991 | See Source »

...outstretched tongue, remembers it differently. The parts he remembers, that is. (He's a little fuzzy on the audition: "That was a year and a half ago," he patiently explains.) Adam thought the work was "all fun," except for one scene where he had to wear leg braces, another where he rides a pony, and a few others where he was supposed to cry. Could Fred be someone Adam might know? "No, he's too smart for me." Could he exist somewhere? "It could be possible. It's true that some people are like that. Yeah, maybe in Cincinnati." They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jodie Foster: A Screen Gem Turns Director | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...child. I wandered through wide expanses of prairies without any supervision. A farm boy took me into a cornfield when I was five and showed me his penis. A teenager molested me when I was eight. At 10, I felt the groping fingers of a man reaching up my leg in the theater where I was watching a movie. By the time I was 18, I was pregnant. In my 23rd year, a psychiatrist was putting his tongue deep into my mouth. My mother opened the door, and everybody else walked through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Own Story | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

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