Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bomb inside on the plane as he prepared to disembark. But the TWA airliner would have been swept of all bags in the luggage compartments and underneath passenger seats before the Paris-bound passengers were boarded and their luggage loaded onto the aircraft. On the New York-Paris leg, no bag would have been allowed aboard the plane without its passenger on board as well. The terrorist could have persuaded another passenger to unwittingly take his carry-on luggage with the bomb inside. However, airline officials at check-in counters ask every passenger if anyone has asked them to take...
...Strug took the long walk back down the runway, with the crowd roaring its support. Strug then calmly sprinted down the runway, cartwheeled onto the takeoff board, springing backward onto the vault, twisted 1 1/2 times and stuck her landing. After holding her landing, she lifted up her left leg, grimacing in pain and then collapsed. She was carried off the floor in tears, as the crowd erupted at her score of 9.712, clinching the gold for the United States. "My foot was killing me" after the first vault, Strug said. But the thought of passing up the second vault...
...also starts with a baby born with her feet turned almost backwards. "They said I wouldn't be able to run and walk with the other kids," that baby, all grown up, now says. So she wore corrective leg braces, wore them to bed, wore them to school. There she is teased because of her name, even though Venus is the goddess of beauty. "Venus is a planet," kids tell her. Even when her own family chooses sides for basketball games, she is left on the sidelines. But in the fourth grade the braces come off, and her body...
Although January intersession provides some respite, it is not until summer that I cast off the leg-irons of heavy syllabi and give myself a three-month furlough...
...repetition. "Whatever it is that we're going to say and do," Gorton explained to Yeltsin's aides, "we have to repeat it between eight and 12 times." Those numbers were invented. "The Russians believe that anything that's worthwhile is scientifically based," says Shumate. "This gave us a leg up when we started to seriously use focus groups to guide campaign policy, but right at the start it let us pretend that we knew more than we really did. There's no data supporting how many times something needs to be repeated, but the Russians bought...