Word: leggedly
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...still in their automobile. Finding a raised drawbridge in their path, they doubled back, sped unharmed through the helpless posse. The police caught up again, burst their quarry's rear tires with a blast of bullets. A slug plowed through Boardman Sykes' thigh, pinked Boardman Stephens' leg...
...upper edge of the hip socket. The loosened piece of bone he bends down and wedges securely with bone grafts. After healing, the downturned chunk of pelvis acts like a claw to hold the hip bone within its socket. The new grip is just tight enough to let the leg swing...
...Seattle gets the patient out of bed in two days by drilling one hole in the femur just above the break and a second just below the break. He puts long steel pins through the holes and flesh and attaches steel braces to the pins. The braces prevent the leg from shortening, permit the patient to walk on crutches...
...soaring leap across parallel bars; Starace motorcycling at 140 kilometers per hour. Up went Starace last week to Sestrieres, swank yet popular priced winter resort. There he went snugly to bed. got up early next morning, started zipping down the ski jump. Soon Starace broke his right leg...
...machine. Al Munro Elias has his clerks operate it, uses their results to compile his own statistics in his head. He does most of his work at his apartment, except when visiting baseball training camps each spring. In 1928, when he was 56, Al Munro Elias lost his right leg in an auto accident. It interrupted the pursuit of his vocation for two months. Since then his Bureau has become a monopoly. His first competitor, George Moreland, long ago sent to prison for cashing bad checks, has since dropped out of sight. In addition to the age, birthday, batting average...