Word: leggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failed only because he could not tie a good enough knot. A nine-year-old girl attempted suicide twice-her mother saved her once by yanking away a bottle of rubbing alcohol she was trying to drink, the next time by grabbing her after she had swung one leg over an eighth-floor balcony. Other young children have tried to die by setting fires in their homes, jumping off rooftops, taking fistfuls of pills and slashing their wrists...
...Gulf County, Fla., courtroom of Judge David Taunton these past four years, the rule of law has been compassion for the poor. When an appliance company tried to repossess a washing machine from a black man with no job, a wooden leg and seven children, Judge Taunton reached into his pocket and paid the defendant's $97 overdue bill himself. Without being subpoenaed, he appeared as a character witness for a man convicted of drunken driving who was trying to get his license back so he could take his wife to the hospital for cancer treatments. To spare...
...What Princeton freestyler beat Bobby Hackett off the blocks in the last leg of the 400-yard freestyle relay and eventually won the Easterns for the Tigers last year...
Fitzsimmons, from Connecticut, came on three years ago to ignite a sputtering program, but he has spent the better part of two years battling an assortment of leg infuries, the most serious being tendonitis of the knee. A very gutsy try at steeplechase running last spring has everyone hoping that Fitzy can put it all together once more...
...says Hungarian-born Dancer Ivan Nagy, 35, "but the ballet is the original women's liberation profession. It is created for females." The impeccable partner to such ballerinas as Dame Margot Fonteyn and Natalia Makarova, Nagy is now planning to retire from the American Ballet Theater before weary leg muscles make him earthbound. Pouts Makarova: "He is the most lyrical dancer, and I will miss him." What will Nagy miss the most? "When I am dancing with a woman onstage and it works, I feel that I love her, and that sort of love simply does not exist offstage...