Word: legging
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...turtle. His face was a mask, gray and yellow. His glaring eyes were bloodshot, with large dark pouches from lack of sleep. His left hand, holding his glasses, kept trembling and banging against a table. He pressed his left thigh against the table to suppress the twitching of his leg...
...itself, would be vulnerable if a grave illness were admitted. As John B. Moses and Wilbur Cross relate in the book Presidential Courage (W.W. Norton Co., 1980), many Presidents suffered, usually in silence and secrecy, from chronic and painful diseases. George Washington had a giant benign tumor in his leg and was the victim of rheumatism and repeated pneumonia. Andrew Jackson, famous for his stamina and courage, was described in a contemporary article in the Boston Medical School Journal as "a tottering scarecrow in deadly agony," a man in whom "the malaria, the dysentery, the osteomyelitis and the bronchiectasis were...
When the Bomb fell, Numata, then 21, was working in a military communications office. The building collapsed in the explosion, and her left ankle was severed. That night she was taken to a hospital, where she remained for three days with no doctor, no nurse or medicine. Her left leg became gangrenous. She believed she was going to die. She hoped that her fiancé would visit her, but, as she learned from his parents a few days later, the young man had been killed in action in July. Her third day in the hospital, a doctor came, examined her leg...
...said, 'Doctor, if I lose my leg, I will never be married, never work again.' And the doctor said, 'You are not the only patient here. Think hard about your choice by the time I return.' I was in despair. All I ever hoped for was to be taken away in a single act. I wanted...
...third person, too, was gasping. But I could hear the words. He said, 'All of us here are going to die at any moment. But you ... if your leg is amputated, you still would live. Live. Take the operation, and live...