Word: knee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swept by machine-gun fire and a constant artillery barrage is upon us. I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I will hold." He was hit by a bullet in the shoulder and by a shell fragment in the knee; most of his clothes were torn off; but clad chiefly in helmet and pistol belt, he held...
...office about four days after he assumed his duties. I saw the places where the secret recording devices had been installed ... I am [also] completely convinced and satisfied that there is no secret tapping of the telephones . . ." (Strauss found the device in a decorative fireplace after brushing his knee against its cut-in switch under his desk.) Hickenlooper could not resist adding a comment born of ten years' experience in Washington: "I think it is ominous . . . when those who decry methods of insinuation and the blasting of characters and reputations on the part of others, themselves use such innuendo...
When Miriam, aged 6½, first appeared at Babies Hospital in Manhattan, there was not even a name in the medical dictionaries for what ailed her. She had repeated attacks of vomiting; reflexes like the knee-jerk were dulled or lacking; her hands and feet were blue and cold; she perspired so heavily that her bedclothes had to be changed soon after she fell asleep; her blood pressure skyrocketed and plummeted inexplicably; when she had a temper tantrum, which was often, she broke out in red blotches. But her strangest symptom sounded like something out of a fairy tale...
Though given to rough playfulness that can easily hurt a man (he once blacked Winfrey's eye merely by lifting a knee while the trainer was inspecting his ankle), the Dancer stands stone calm as the groom sponges off the sleek grey hide and gives the legs a liniment wash. "He knows me lak' a book," says Murray. "An' I knows him. We gets along." Mutters a visitor: "That guy sure has faith in that grey horse." Now almost finished, Murray takes hold of the dark grey tail and pulls his 200-plus pounds to his feet. "That...
...first, Bill Cleary at second, Art Noyes at short, and Ray Maesaka or Jim Rahal at third. Veteran Ed Krinsky opened at shortstop Saturday, but his still-weak leg forced him to retire in favor of Noyes. Rahal played third at New Haven. It is doubtful whether Krinsky's knee will allow him to play much today either...