Word: knee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kenary, who aggravated his injured knee the day before the baseball season opened, will be sidelined for the rest of the season, it was learned last night. Kenary had been listed as starting first baseman in the tentative lineup for the Boston University game...
...only shift in the Crimson lineup will put Captain John Caulfield on first, replacing Jim Kenary who aggravated his injured knee Friday. Bernie Akillian, who moves into Caulfield's outfield spot...
...great game of politics was being played without benefit of rules in Florida last week, and the knee-action and eye-gougings could be felt from Pensacola to Fort Lauderdale. Fast-talking George Smathers had learned the art of campaigning from Senator Claude Pepper. Running against the master (TIME, April 3), he showed that he had learned how to pour salt in Pepper's old wounds. Fishing out an old newspaper clipping at every campaign stop, Smathers read Pepper's reported 1946 advice to the U.S.: pray for Joseph Stalin because he is; the kind of man Americans...
Sometimes over English cherry brandy and again over Chinese tea, the mandarins insisted, the ambassador resisted. Amherst offered to kneel on one knee. Not enough. He would even kiss the Emperor's hand, as was the custom in England. The mandarins shook their heads in horror over what they plainly thought a disgusting custom...
...much-used blanket"), ridiculed the native opera ("the instrumental music, from its resemblance to the bagpipes, might be tolerated by Scotchmen; to others it was detestable"). Then, as they neared the walls of Peking, the troubled mandarins agreed that the troublesome ambassador might kneel before the Emperor on one knee and bow three times, repeating this homage thrice. The Canton trade, the British told themselves, was not worth any more appeasement...