Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leaning on my right leg to brace against the 40 mile-per-hour winds, I watched as the crew on the deck connected the F-14 "Tomcat" to the catapult. The blast shield behind the plane's twin engines rose and so did the noise...
Consider what happens inside your body when it is subjected to intense pain. Say, for example, you're on your way to work when a runaway car jumps the curb and crushes your left leg. First, your mangled limb lets loose a flood of chemicals, called prostaglandins, that trigger swelling and activate the nerves that stretch from leg to spine. As soon as the nerve signals reach the spinal column, another group of nerves takes over and passes the message on to the brain. It is only after the brain gets in on the act that you can "feel" your...
...sent to the publisher--and been accepted--Izzi's body, wearing a bullet-proof vest, was found hanging outside the window of his 14th-floor office above Chicago's Loop. The rope slip-knotted around the corpse's neck passed back through the window, and was tied to the leg of a desk. On the floor was a loaded revolver. A hole, as if from a struggle, was bashed in one plasterboard office wall, but the office was locked from the inside...
Lodewick won both the Long Jump and Triple Jump, and ran a leg on the 4X100-meter relay...
...field, he was incessantly mocked and jeered in the North where all of the major league teams were located. Pitchers threw inside to intimidate him; fans released black cats onto the field; opposing players repeatedly attempted to spike him, once causing a seven-inch gash on Robinson's leg. Moreover, countless teams tried organizing boycotts to prevent Robinson from playing on their fields...