Word: legginged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day Hoyt began tinkering with the Post's horrendous, circus-poster typography, told his editors to shorten the wordy leads on news stories, stop "jumping" stories from Page One. He quickly won the women. First he abolished the old rule against women smoking in the city room. Then...
Most U.S. soldiers have tramped the mud in rubber-soled, rough-side-out leather combat boots (fairly water-repellent if coated in a waxy substance called dubbing); some had only ordinary G.I. boots with legging extensions (an extremely soggy combination); a few had galoshes. Most trench-foot casualties occurred because...
Turned out to pasture for eight months, the filly got rest, treatment for her game leg, the nickname "Mimi." Then 52-year-old Frenchy jerked a black & white plaid cap down over his ears, lifted his 128 lbs. into the saddle, set about the business of legging-up Happy Issue...
For years the U.S. soldier's grey-greens have been a nuisance to him. They are hard to adjust, complicated to lace (especially the left one), have a trick of starting to go adrift at crucial moments. Beyond that, a bumpily laced, hurriedly donned legging will inevitably bring a...