Word: knee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conservatives, not surprisingly, tend to advocate a quasi-market solution. The absence of thinking in the White House and the abundance of knee-jerk free marketeers there means that the only suggestion we will get out of Bush is a reluctant agreement to a gap-filling insurance system for those 37 million uninsured...
...After seeing thousands of rape cases, what would you tell a woman to do -- talk back, be quiet, knee him in the groin...
...involved with TIME AUSTRALIA, helping conceive and edit stories, he intends to devote more time to a young family; his third and fourth children were born during his years at the editor's helm. Eventually, as Jeff told me a few months ago, the clasping and yelling at his knee every morning seemed to be drowning out all the other squeals for attention. "Michael has produced much of the edition's best work himself and shown the capacity to get the best out of others," Jeff says. "He will care brilliantly for an edition that I regard as another...
...piece from little-known Merrily We Roll Along, provides a fitting finale to the electric evening. Starting with one singer, "Our Time" incrementally blossoms until all six performers stand in a single line on the stage. Their group bow ends an evening of memorable tunes which combines both knee-slapping jumpiness and pathos-filled personal reflection...
...great many prejudices that have since dissolved. But what I still hate about the women's movement is their insistence upon male piety in relation to it. I don't like bending my knee and saying I'm sorry, mea culpa. I find now that women have achieved some power and recognition they are quite the equal of men in every stupidity and vice and misjudgment that we've exercised through history...