Word: legging
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...they’re gonna finish,” she said. At one point, it looked as if the vomit is imminent. Maintaining her sense of humor, DeSantis noted, “That would’ve been a great shot.”Finally on the last leg of the race, DeSantis, a Cabot resident, called her roommates to come cheer her on. “You’ve been eating lukewarm chickwiches?!” Tori E. Dantono ’10 asked in disbelief. The battle-weary pair ignored the skepticism. Tan and DeSantis took their...
...third leg of this spring's Democratic special election trifecta, and it leaves the GOP looking lame ahead of the fall campaign. In March, Republicans lost the once-safe Illinois seat held by former Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert, followed by a Louisiana loss in another long-held seat this month. On Capitol Hill, Democrats did not even try to contain their glee. "The Republicans can run, but they can't hide in any district in America," proclaimed Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen, head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which spent close to $1.8 million on the race...
...Frank Chikowore, a 26-year-old independent freelancer, was arrested in mid April and held for 17 days. He told TIME that he was kept in leg irons in a cell in Harare Remand Prison meant for five but packed with 40 other men. There were no lights or toilets, no water for days on end and food, when served, was "filthy." A detective inspector told Chikowore that "people like me were terrorists, sell-outs and not to be trusted," and that there was a campaign under way to detain all such suspects. "He showed [me] a list...
...sight of this beautiful animal collapsing after her courageous effort, her life ended by two shattered front ankles, called up memories of Barbaro, that brilliant colt ruined by a broken leg at the Preakness two years ago. Inevitably, people asked if some moral rot has crept into the sport of kings, wherein immature horses are urged to overextend themselves on legs that snap like icicles...
...quite a bit shorter, but it has been determined in less than 20 seconds that he can kick my ass. "That was very good," he says, his breathing only faintly increased as I get up from the mat and suck in air. "You moved it from a double-leg takedown to a single-leg." Yes, my first seven seconds were heroic. If wrestling 60-year-old playwrights were at all like bull-riding, I could...