Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expected highlight of the Beijing leg of their trip will be a meeting with Tung Chee Hwa, who will assume Hong Kong's highest administrative post from current Governor Chris Patten...
...dashboard of his station wagon after it plunged 150 ft. off an embankment in Washington State. He escaped with his life (partly by throwing his shirt into a nearby stream and sucking the moisture out of it), but not all of his limbs. The loss of his left leg hasn't slowed the 48-year-old down, though. On Feb. 17, the ex-Green Beret nurse competed in the Antarctica Marathon, sponsored by World team Sports, an organization that brings able-bodied and disabled athletes together. He didn't win, but his finish...
...August 1967, with China in tumult, he and Liu were put on public trial. Liu's leg was broken in the spectacle, and he later died of pneumonia in a makeshift prison in the city of Kaifeng. At the trial Red Guards decried Deng as a "capitalist roader," a "fascist" and a "traitor" and shouted, "Cook the dog's head in boiling oil!" Confronted by such rantings for hours on end, Deng simply removed his hearing aid. What saved him from Liu's fate, evidently, was a simple thing as well. While Mao had always despised the patrician...
Running with stress fracture in his leg, freshman Darren N. Dineen fell behind early in the 1000 but ran a remarkable last lap to pass most of the field. He finished the race in second, setting a freshman record in the process...
...beginning of her sophomore year, the leg had healed enough to be cleared, but her knee still retained too much fluid. Plus, the pain in her legs continued. Running was tough. Sprints were practically impossible. To this day Black can only run on a basketball court, and even that on a limited level...