Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kunimatsu's movements and chosen his time carefully. But it was the assailant's marksmanship that most clearly separated his act from that of a rank amateur. At a distance of more than 65 ft., he fired four times and did not miss once, putting bullets through Kunimatsu's leg, chest and abdomen even as the police chief crumpled to the ground. Then the gunman hopped on a bicycle and disappeared...
...greatest crime? The answer struck Ellroy as simple: he couldn't and wouldn't. "I said, 'Wait a minute. I can write an epic in which the assassination is only one crime in a long series of crimes. I can write a novel of collusion about the unsung leg breakers of history. I can do a tabloid sewer crawl through the private nightmare of public policy...
...broke the news that the Washington-based agent had presented Nancy with a ring (ice, of course) last month. Solomon, who separated from his first wife in 1993, has said in the past that he and the Olympic skating medalist drew closer after she was clubbed on the leg in January 1994. Wedding details are still unclear, but afterward they're probably not going to Disney World...
Sacks is a less impressive terrestrial. Whoever defined walking as a series of movements to keep from falling down could have had him in mind. His 1984 book A Leg to Stand On is a neurological account of his recovery from severe muscle and nerve damage suffered in a tumble during a 1976 hiking trip in Norway. After writing the book, he slipped and injured his other leg. It was awkwardness, however, that led to his becoming a clinician. In California, Sacks worked in a lab with disastrous results. He absentmindedly misplaced data and once accidentally dropped his lunch into...
...Carswell, the preliminary heat also took its toll. In the final, the sophomore could only leg out a seventh place finish...