Word: knee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the Wing Sang arrived at Formosa, with a few shell holes in her hull, and two casualties-a Chinese crewman who had been wounded in the knee by a pirate bullet, and the ten-year-old reader of Treasure Island, who had become violently sick at his stomach from seeing the real thing. The Wing Sang's agents, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., promised to repay the passengers who had chipped in ransom money. British, U.S. and Chinese Nationalist ships kept a lookout for a handsome buccaneer, wearing brown leather gloves and a gold wristwatch, who made short...
...loss was doubly unfortunate since first string guard Ed Krinsky hurt his knee in the second quarter and had to sit out the rest of the game. Krinsky's leg will be X-rayed today to determine the seriousness of the injury. He probably will miss at least the varsity's three games this week...
...state for two days before being taken to London's 12th century Westminster Hall, adjoining the House of Commons.† Across the meadows and through the woods went the soft lament of the bagpipes. All that night the King's gamekeepers, in green buckskin jackets and dark knee breeches, took their turns standing honor guard in two-hour shifts, four at a time, one at each corner of the coffin. All next day and the day after, villagers filed silently past to pay their last respects to their King and squire as he lay in the simple casket...
...feels American Catholics "condemn continuously?" If he feels there is prolonged concentration on that one sin, possibly it is the only one he is interested in reading or hearing about ... I suggest Mr. Sugrue enroll in a course of elementary catechism and get off Paul Blanshard's knee...
...Athens, at a charity benefit showing of the movie Tales of Hoffmann, King Paul, accompanied by Queen Frederika, hobbled to his seat on crutches. Nursing a sprained knee, which he had twisted recently on his yacht, the King insisted on keeping the theater date...