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Legs by William Kennedy

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Leg
51 words, approx. 1 pages
In a biped, the lower limb, jointed at the knee, supporting the body and used for walking and running. Its bones are the femur (thighbone), the longest bone in the human body; patella (kneecap); tibia (shin); and fibula. The biceps muscle of the thigh...
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Legs Proverbs : World Proverbs
26 words, approx. 1 pages
Better walk on wooden legs than be carried on a wooden bier. (Danish) Everyone stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet....
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Legs Information
239 words, approx. 1 pages
Diagram of an insect leg A leg is the part of an animal 's body that supports the rest of the animal above the ground between the ankle and the hip and is used for locomotion . The end of the leg furthest from the animal's body is often either modified...


News and Journals
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Leg
09/09/2001: 462 words, approx. 2 pages
Leg, not heart missing San Jose State player wants back in game By JAKE CURTIS San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, September 9, 2001 San Jose, Calif. -- At some point, amid the amazement and admiration, the question has to be...
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Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness
Leg work
01/01/2002: 375 words, approx. 1 pages
If your wheels are spinning instead of growing, you could be making one of these top five mistakes in leg training: 5) Turning your feet in and out to "hit" different areas of the legs. Research shows changing the width of your stance...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Valentine Cunningham
437 words, approx. 2 pages
Forty-three years after his death the old comrades of the now legendary Jack "Legs" Diamond are reminiscing atop their bar-stools in a somewhat boozier than Conradian vein. Among them, her memory juiced-up by the drink, one Flossie recalls that Diamond "had a tan collie, could count to fifty-two and do subtraction", that he "could turn on the electric light sometimes just by snapping his fingers", that "he could tie both his shoes at once". But the sto...
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Critical Essay by Peter S. Prescott
372 words, approx. 1 pages
"Legs" translated the career of a gangster into a shimmering, witty story that combined fact and myth to prod at our national ambivalence toward celebrity criminals. The disappointment of ["Billy Phelan's Greatest Game"] is not that it lacks its predecessor's magnetic core, but that its core is so weak that its author seems to disdain it: the story's depth, as someone once said, is entirely on the surface…. But it is a surface polished to a high gloss&...


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Legs by William Kennedy

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