Word: knee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrangements for Queen Elizabeth's coronation. At previous coronations, it was mandatory for peers attending the ceremony to wear crimson robes trimmed with ermine. This time, peers not taking direct part in the ceremonies may wear merely the mantle of an order of knighthood over formal evening dress (knee breeches optional). The wives of peers (below the rank of countess) may also come in ordinary evening dresses...
When the young bush nurse drove her buggy up to a tenant shack on a cattle station in Queensland, Australia, she expected to find teething trouble or an upset stomach. Instead, she found the stockman's 2½-year-old daughter lying crippled on a cot. One knee was drawn up, the foot pointed down and the heel twisted outward. One paralyzed arm lay across her chest. The nursing sister had never seen a case like it, so she drove miles to a telegraph office and wired a doctor for advice. His reply: "Infantile paralysis. No known treatment...
...Bayous of Strategy. As commandant for the past 10½ months Shepherd has demonstrated the same zestful appetite for keeping on top of the situation. Though Marines are traditionally content not to reason why, he has waded at least knee deep into the murky bayous of strategic thought; he is the first Marine to sit (although only in an advisory capacity) in the sacrosanct halls of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Brian Reynolds, starting defensive halfback and only experienced reserve to back up wingback John Ederer, is on the doubtful list. Reynolds injured his knee at Princeton and was forced to sit out the Brown game...
...defensive eleven may be further weakened by the absence of starting safety Sam Fyock, and veteran defensive nd Harvey Popell. Both are side-lined with knee injuries. The question of whether their injuries will be sufficiently healed for them to see action will probably go unanswered until Saturday...