Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the nine-game drought, injuries plagued the seniors, who had been Harvard's main offensive and defensive weapons; Konik and defensive stalwart Pete McLaughlin were sidelined after the infamous car crash the night before the first Beanpot game, while Holmes and Nielsen battled nagging leg and shoulder injuries...
DIED. JOHN BERADINO, 79, actor who played General Hospital's patriarchal Dr. Steve Hardy; in Los Angeles. A fixture on the abc soap for 33 years, Beradino turned to acting after a leg injury ended his baseball career...
Zyuganov's parents, neither of whom ever joined the party, were schoolteachers. His father Andrei, a peaceful man whose hobby was beekeeping, nearly lost his right leg to a German bullet in the fighting near Sevastopol and walked with a severe limp for the rest of his life. Like much of rural Russia, Mymrino still lacks plumbing and paved roads. The region suffered from the mass arrests and forced collectivization of Stalin's time, although you won't hear Zyuganov talk about that when he rhapsodizes about Russia's rural past in his speeches...
...racketeers, brutal, ruthless, powerful mafias. People were terrified. It is not capitalism per se but the form in which it first appeared that supplied Communists with fresh followers. I remember walking around Moscow with my friend Syoma. The city was cold and dirty. One could easily break one's leg because the sidewalks, uncleared for months, were covered with mountains of ice. The squares and the streets near train and subway stations overflowed with vendors peddling rubbish, anything to make a living. In the clumsy stalls were bottles of whiskey, packs of chewing gum, piles of sunglasses. That is what...
Chinese runner and double-world-record holder Wang Junxia, 22, clocked the fastest times of the year in the 5,000 m and 10,000 m at China's Olympic trials last week. Wang, a farmer's daughter, is recovering from leg injuries and a nasty split with her former coach Ma Junren. Under a grueling training regimen, "Ma's Army" of runners broke several records in 1993 but drew charges--never proved--that some members were given performance-enhancing drugs...