Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More alarming is the gushing bleeding some of the women have experienced, the result, in many cases, of missed hormonal signals and a loss of uterine muscle tone. "Sometimes when I'm at the office and I stand up, the blood is dripping down my leg," said Marian, 45. "What the hell is going on? Am I hemorrhaging?" And a few women complained about bladder-control problems. Joked Marian: "Don't tell me I'm going to replace tampons with Depends...
...sensible households may suspect a touch of exaggeration when, more or less safely delivered into adulthood, Karr rummages in the family attic. She's looking for the six or seven wedding rings from her mother's rumored but stubbornly unacknowledged previous marriages. What she finds is the artificial leg of her despised dead grandmother...
...relatives of soldiers missing in Vietnam oppose the moveas long as the MIA issue remains unresolved. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), aformer Vietnam War POWwho has long supported normalizing relations, says he will offer a Senate resolution supporting the move with Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.), who lost a leg in Vietnam. The support of two such distinguished senators and war heroes, saysTIME Diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer, makes the move much more likely...
...children around the world. Teer still has that same lost expression today, but added to it is a tinge of fear. Last February he was abducted from in front of his home, held blindfolded for 24 hours and then severely beaten. His abductors thrust Teer's legs through the pickets of a wrought-iron fence to immobilize them and then proceeded to batter his limbs with steel pipes. When the ambulance arrived 20 minutes later, he was covered with blood. His left leg was broken in four places. His right leg, the shinbone sticking through the skin, was so swollen...
...Teer was in the backseat of a stolen car that rammed an auto belonging to an I.R.A. chieftain. For Teer, the arbitrary sentence handed down by an I.R.A. kangaroo court for this careless act of joyriding has resulted in a 5-in. steel pin to hold his shattered left leg together and months of physical therapy...