Word: legging
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...then along came Warne. From his international debut in 1992, the stocky blond-haired Australian almost single-handedly made spin-bowling fashionable again, reviving the arcane and difficult craft of leg spin-bowling (in which spin is imparted mostly through a snap of the wrist rather than via the fingers) and proving that slow bowlers can be just as aggressive and flamboyant as the fast men. In the years after Warne hit the big time, kids in backyards across the cricketing world stopped trying to fling the ball as fast as they could and began learning the subtler...
...Arab nationalist Baath Party in 1957. Two years later, at the age of 22, Saddam was part of a Baathist plot to assassinate General Abdul Karim Kassem, who had overthrown the monarchy of King Faisal II a year before. Saddam escaped Iraq with a gunshot wound in the leg and spent the next six years in exile in Cairo where he had contacts with the CIA. The American spy agency was backing the Baathists at the time...
...been brought to court for the first time, and Iraqis were still absorbing the prospect that justice would be done upon their former tormentor. When I asked Abu Mohammed if Saddam was still in his head, he told me a story about one of his sons, who had a leg blown off by a landmine during Saddam's first folly, the eight-year war with Iran. "For years, he would wake up in the morning and fall out of his bed because he thought he still had the leg," Abu Mohammed said. Saddam had become a ghost limb for Iraqis...
...which Triple Crown horse race did the Thoroughbred Barbaro suffer a broken leg? A Kentucky Derby...
...months before the Iowa caucus kicks off the official drive to the Democratic nomination for president, one potential candidate for the nod stated his case in Kirkland House this Friday. Senator and possible nominee Christopher J. Dodd, D.-Conn., fielded questions from about 350 spectators during the first leg of “Conversations with Candidates.” The series, hosted by the Harvard College Democrats, has at least four more potential presidential nominees lined up, said Dems Vice President Harlan M. Piper ’08. Piper declined to specify which candidates. While Dodd has not yet officially...