Word: knee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharp-eyed Neal Kromer. manager of the Bogert Builders of the rival Knee-High League, had been impressed by the two youngsters' strong throwing arms and their better-than-.400 batting averages. He offered them free taxi rides to and from every game, flashy jackets and future trips to New York if only they would jump from the Jets and sign with the Builders. Flattered as any bonus baby, the kids agreed...
Another delicate sign to Vaticanists: before Wyszynski, having kissed the Pope's foot, could complete the customary obeisance of kissing his knee and hand, the Pope raised him from the floor and warmly embraced...
...State Dulles, and a one-hour session, along with Dulles, with Eisenhower at the White House. Ike and Diem got another chance to talk at a formal dinner at the Viet Nam embassy, where Host Diem, dressed in traditional Vietnamese costume-black turban, white trousers, a purple-and-black knee-length coat-also had a chat with another Ike visitor, Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery...
...split second that it takes a ball to travel 60 ft. 6 in. from the pitcher's mound to the plate, Gil noted with surprise that Cleveland Southpaw Herb Score had failed to lean into his usual fluid follow-through. A fat pitch floated up, just knee-high. McDougald lashed it back, a string-straight drive that ended in the sickening sound of a baseball meeting human bone. Pitcher Score crumpled. Blood burst from his nose and mouth...
Things should be a little better this afternoon, but the team is still suffering from injuries. Fallon will continue to fill in for Tom Crump, who injured his knee in the Princeton game, and Dub Mallonee will start in place of Jerry Cotter, who dislocated his shoulder...