Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard of hearing, an upended log cost him part of his left foot, and a misstep impaled him on a stick that punctured his bowels. "All in all, I'd say I've been mighty lucky," says Page, and, comparing himself with those loggers who have lost a leg or even a life, he is right...
Kyaw Lin hangs out with the other kids at Komura, doing chores and waiting for the orders of Lieut. Brown, 38, a Karen who lost his right leg to a mine ten years ago. His stump is covered by an intricate blue swirl of tattoos. Unable to go out on patrol, he trains the children and the volunteers from nearby villages. Brown insists that the children are not forced to fight, and he says he tries to keep them back. But, he acknowledges reluctantly, sometimes they do go to war. He adds that the children are mostly good fighters...
...sprawled on the street, his blood seeping onto the concrete. "I was mad, everybody was." Henry didn't get a chance to vent his anger until much later, for a different shooting by a different gang. After Florencia gang members shot a Grape Street member in the leg, the Grape Street gang had a meeting, and Henry and two other friends volunteered for the mission. "I wanted to do it," he says...
...military strongman Abdul Karim Kassem. When the Baathists fared no better under the new regime, Saddam was tapped by the party in 1959 to assassinate Kassem. That attempt also failed, but Saddam emerged a hero as stories circulated of how he had a companion dig a bullet from his leg with a penknife, then to Syria disguised as a Bedouin...
With patterned tights all the rage, this should be the most colorful summer in a long time. The fall will see cashmere leggings (tights without a foot), in cable knits, wools and especially in velvet. Jean-Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld, French fans of tights, are emphasizing the leg. So is the hot young American designer, Isaac Mizrahi, who dismisses the '80s as a time of "boring, rote, dress-for-success looks with stock-tie blouses, flannel jackets and henny-looking long, drab skirts...