Word: knee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Point: class of 1915; better than average in scholarship, ranking 61st in a graduating group of 164; worse than average in conduct, ranking 95th among the 164. A good halfback, Cadet Ike badly wrenched his knee in a rough game with the Carlisle Indians, whose star was the great Jim Thorpe; in a subsequent game he broke the knee, then injured it further in the riding hall and had to quit football for good. Among Ike's classmates were Omar Bradley (who stood sixth in conduct), James Van Fleet, the late Vernon Prichard (a top West Point football...
...playmates. She began her days with character-building cold sponge baths. She was tall and awkward, and at Christmas dances she had to wear dresses cut inappropriately above the knee by adults who knew best. When she was 15, for fear of too much gaiety, she was sent to Mile. Souvestre's French school (every girl confessed before dinner if she had used an English word during the day) outside London...
...prizewinning novel he says: "I'm still amazed. I'd resigned myself to years of shipping it around." What is he thinking of calling it? Cooper points to the attic trunk where he used to hide his manuscripts when friends dropped in: "I've hit my knee and torn my pants on that trunk so many times that I've taken to calling the whole thing just...
Squires, who suffered a non-serious twisted knee during his match with Ufford, had earlier beaten both Crimson Captain Jim Bacon and regular number two man, Dave Watts. He barely edged Bacon in Sunday morning's semi-final round, 15-12, 15-5, 12-15, 15-14, and took care of Watts in third round play Saturday, 11-15, 15-11, 15-11, 15-11. Ufford beat Dartmouth's Steve Foster, seeded seventh, in his semi-final match...
...same team that best Boston University, 54 to 43, on Tuesday. Dick Lionette will play at center, with Bill Dennis and Bob Gromp at the forwards. Ed Condon and Ed Krinsky will be the guards. Krinsky, the star of the B.U. win, shouldn't have much trouble from his knee injury...