Word: knee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martha, with a knee slightly sprained from doing the Charleston, explained the social principle underlying the party: "Anybody can just invite a lot of people out of the telephone book. We invite people who are a lot of fun. Entertaining is like cooking-you've got to have a little pepper and a little salt and a little garlic...
...year men's oxford grey denim suits created such a stir that manufacturers be gan wondering if the men's market might not eventually outstrip women and children sales. Other new uses: denim umbrel las, knitting bags, glass cases to match costumes, fancy pants (an oriental-type knee-length woman's garment for lounge wear), men's tattersall vests, women's ensembles of belts, purses and shoes. Cone Mills has 95 different shades and patterns of denim in the fall line it recently showed to buyers. Reeves, Avondale, Simatex and other mills are furiously expanding...
Kennedy's next" assignment was Newport, R.I., as instructor to a group of Russian naval officers, teaching tactics and maintenance of PT boats to be delivered under Lend-Lease. Shortly after the Normandy invasion, he was nicked in the knee by a piece of German shrapnel. The next day in Cherbourg he met Ann Newdick, a Red Cross worker whom he married two months later in Paris...
...hurled to the ground, their bodies riddled with fragments from the bazooka shell they had found. Rocky the dog was dead. In the hospital it was nip & tuck, but the boys pulled through eventually, though Jerry lost three toes, and both David's legs were amputated above the knee. That...
...fairway, however, Ike's swings and footwork have a few kinks-the result, Armour supposes, of a bad knee (an old football injury). Ike's main trouble in almost every picture: "His right knee, and consequently his right side, has 'locked' [i.e., stiffened] during the hit." Another of Ike's form faults which Ar mour calls "not permissible": his arms are sometimes bent on the follow-through, instead of going "straight out after the ball...