Word: knee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scott, was a citizen-soldier like Harry Truman, but his war record was not nearly so good as Truman's. He enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and President Polk, an old friend, promptly promoted him to brigadier-general. Pierce fell off his horse, sprained his knee and fainted at the battle of Contreras, fainted again the next day at the battle of Churubusco. No less a writer than Nathaniel Hawthorne (another old friend) said this showed how America's battles were won-by the valor and dash of citizen-soldiers rather than stuffy professionals like...
Five sophomores and two juniors are included in Pickett's starting lineup. Captain Johnny Lee, however, will see no action tonight. Pickett wants to take no chances with his injured knee, and prefers to start him in the first meet in February...
Charlie got there by starting early in life: "I've been riding since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. Grandmother and Daddy gave me a saddle horse when I was six." By the time Charlie was eleven, and weighing a wringing-wet 45 Ibs., he had ridden his first winner in a quarter-horse race at Ponca City, Okla. Riding for his uncle, Clarence ("Shorty") Burr, young Charlie barnstormed all over Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Missouri in the rough & ready quarter-horse circuit...
...murderer seized the ten-year-old child by the legs, and smashed its head against a stone pillar. The skull was shattered, the right eye was knocked out and there was a deep cut across the lower lip. Both legs were broken at the thigh and the left knee was dislocated. Then the murderer set out to prove that the crime was all an unfortunate accident...
...break. Under a maze of headlines, the Post ran this vague story, "A prominent state detective's report is in the possession of one of the state's highest officials charging that one of the Commonwealth's top officials, evidently in collusion with courts of equal importance is involved knee deep in racketeering, graft, corruption, and police protection in a certain section of Massachusetts...