Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only a month since Speedster Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals, galloping into first base, had spiked First Baseman Jackie Robinson. Jackie, the first avowed Negro in the history of big-league baseball, looked at his ripped stocking and bleeding leg. It might have been an accident, but Jackie didn't think so. Neither did a lot of others who saw the play. Jackie set his teeth and said nothing. He didn't dare...
...WOMEN Leg Panic...
...Floater, the magazine's Lifestyle section schedules stories on such trends as obscene topiary and the hot new fashion of wearing two-thirds stockings (two-thirds of the way to the knee or two-thirds of the way up the leg or maybe a third missing in patches; nobody seems to know). The writers feel oppressed by an editor they call N.R.F., for No Redeeming Features. The Medicine writer often comes down with the symptoms of the disease he's writing about. Office romances are carried on so discreetly that the rest of the staff becomes aware of them sometimes...
...such call came in the four-by-400, when freshman Rich Powell was tripped. Harvard, which had held the lead up to the second leg, fell to a fifth-place finish...
...fairy-tale blue-and-yellow frock, she flew to the Anastasia sound track, whipping through her triple flip, exploding into a grin that dwarfed her 80-lb. frame and skating circles around everyone but Kwan. Then the 17-year-old veteran showed that having soul as well as legs counts. Kwan drew out the chords of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor into a smooth legato line as she flowed, left leg extended, straight toward the panel of judges. When she emerged from that, the audience and judges had swooned, and Kwan had gold in her sights...