Word: legging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Three hours into the second leg of the trip, a flight attendant awakened Hakim and asked for assistance with a sick passenger in economy class. It was Munir. "He told me he'd been to the restroom six times in half an hour," says Hakim. "His vomiting and diarrhea was acute. He seemed to be extremely restless and in severe pain." Hakim gave Munir stomach medicine, but it had no effect. At one point, Munir asked the flight attendant if he could lie down in the aisle next to the lavatories. She put him in a seat nearby, and Munir...
After leaving to stretch out his leg on the sideline at the 10:06 mark, he never regained the form he showed earlier in the half, finishing the game with five missed shots and two of his game-high nine turnovers while being hounded by Crimson captain Jason Norman...
...self-taught botanist had just a compass and guesswork to guide him, the team - brought together by the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden to mark the bicentenary of his feat by reenacting a segment of it - has all the tools of modern bushwalking. When one of the group injures his leg in a fall, there are mobile phones to summon a car along a fire trail. Caley may have put up with flour, dried beef and the birds the party's dog caught, but these walkers have freeze-dried kangaroo korma and bolognese, fresh snow peas, peanut butter and macadamia nuts...
...soap opera saga that is the Scott Peterson case has finally reached its last leg. The snarky, nefarious California salesman is going to fry—or at least remain locked up for the rest of eternity. While the details of this case are undoubtedly serious and sobering, the mind-boggling amount of media coverage it has garnered is grossly out of proportion with its national importance. In fact, the media circus surrounding this case is downright sickening...
...Medical Investigation. Every week House and the staff at a New Jersey university hospital treat a different mystery illness. But House is working under protest, forced by his hospital administrator (Lisa Edelstein) to spend a few hours a week seeing actual patients face to face. Hobbled by an excruciating leg condition, he pops Vicodin like Tic Tacs as he suffers hypochondriacs with the sniffles. (He does connect with a bitter office worker trying to milk her insurance before she gets fired; admiring her spite, he orders up an expensive, unnecessary scan...