Word: knee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nancy McGinty, a recreational skater who sometimes watches the riverside displays, badly bruised her knee when she fell on her icy driveway, and was sore for four months. Now she wears knee pads. Watching the skaters' hot-shot antics, she shakes her head in amazement...
That overconfidence sometimes worries Weil. Although she's convinced her team to wear knee and elbow pads when they practice, helmets are still unpopular...
Counter's letter was ill-conceived and inaccurate, but in our typically self-righteous knee-jerk form, The Crimson overreacted, escalating the conflict. Instead of talking to Counter and trying to figure out where he was getting his misinformation (from a multitude of students who had come to his office with serious concerns about The Crimson, as it turns out), we trotted out a full page of our standard Armageddonesque anti-insensitivity rhetoric: "unbelievable," "downright scary," "ridiculous," the works...
Typical encounters between doctor and patient? Perhaps. But in each case the doctor and the patient are not seated knee to knee in an examining room: they are hundreds -- in one case thousands -- of miles apart. The physicians are practicing telemedicine, an emerging hybrid of telecommunications and patient care in which people in medically underserved areas use ordinary telephone lines to consult with highly trained specialists whom they could not otherwise afford...
Ferragamo was both couturier and courtier. The exhibition features many pictures of the natty shoemaker on bended knee, cradling the foot of one of his glamorous customers, like Sophia Loren, the Duchess of Windsor (who, he said, had perfect feet) and Ava Gardner. He was an artist for hire who worked for the new royalty of the 20th century: movie stars and socialites. Such clients tested his ingenuity. To fulfill the request of an Indian princess, he once fabricated a shoe of hummingbird feathers. But Ferragamo asserted that he was designing shoes not for the personality of the customer...