Legs
Shanks
Both words in one sentence
- This comes back to bite Nixon later during the night battle, when the author almost shanks him in the kidney in the confusion: Nixon had tucked his trouser legs in higher than usual for a routine night patrol previously, and did not unroll them before turning in for the night.
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