Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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EVEL KNIEVEL once fractured his skull and pelvis jumping over fountains at Caesar's Palace. Last week his leg was injured when his parked motorcycle fell over and pinned him to the ground. Knievel, 60, was rescued by neighbors who heard his pleas for help. Though he complained of leg pain and a scraped elbow, Knievel refused to be taken to a hospital. Even a glutton for pain is not impervious to a bruised...
Your article "Warming Up To Fur" attempted to portray the fur industry as making a healthy recovery [FASHION, Oct. 19]. But everyone knows that in producing a luxury fur, cruelty is inflicted on the innocent victims: leg-hold trapping, anal electrocution, neck wringing, overcrowding of cages in factory fur farms and the myriad other ways the killing occurs before the "fashion" emerges. Seeing someone in fur, I used to think that person was either ignorant of the suffering involved or insensitive to it. But today neither excuse is in fashion. GRETCHEN WYLER, President Ark Trust Inc. Encino, Calif...
Most athletic injuries reflect the nature of a particular sport. Coaches say runners are more prone to ankle and leg problems, while soccer players often develop knee disorders. Contact sports like football and hockey tend to see the most serious and diverse injuries...
...later that night, with his leg and hip "killing" him, he hobbled into UHS. Although Smith says he told the attending doctor he had been hit by a car, he says she looked at his leg for "30 seconds" and declined to take...
...feel like I'm giving back to my community in a tangible way," she adds. Weisner had toyed with the idea of going to medical school when she was an undergraduate. "If I can save someone's life or even help a little kid who has broken his leg, I'll feel like I'm really making a difference. You just don't get that feeling sitting behind a desk...