Word: knee
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...roots in Tikrit, 100 miles north of Baghdad. Born in 1937 the son of peasants, he was orphaned at the age of nine months and raised by an uncle, an army officer named Khairallah Talfah, who hated Britain's domination of Iraq's puppet monarchy. At his knee, the boy learned the ways of intrigue and sneak attack, until Talfah joined in an abortive anti-British coup in 1941 and was imprisoned. Saddam did not attend school until the age of nine and later, when he applied for admission to the elite Baghdad Military Academy, he was rejected for poor...
...current era of medical specialization, one rarely meets a man who can relieve headaches, whiplash, knee and ankle aches, tendonitis, toothaches, pre-menstrual syndrome and sunburn...
With new urgency, an old joke is making the rounds in Moscow. It may not be a knee slapper, but the times make it worth retelling. Shifts in Soviet leadership have historically moved from the bald to the hirsute: from the chrome-dome Lenin to the brush-cut Stalin; from Khrushchev to Brezhnev; from Andropov to Chernenko. Which brings everyone to Mikhail Gorbachev, who is nearly as bald as a darning egg, and to the upstart Boris Yeltsin, whose mane of graying locks ruffles conspicuously these days in the winds of change...
...dealt with this in a very thoughtful manner," says Financial Vice President Robert H. Scott. "He hasn't made a knee-jerk reaction. Instead he's taken very seriously the institution's responsibility to society...
Little Tony Ramirez seemed to be in serious trouble. Wrapping the boy in head-to-knee flexible braces to keep his spine straight, technicians gingerly placed him in the ambulance. It left the scene at 7:05 p.m., just 13 minutes after St. Andrew and Tayenaka got the call. St. Andrew monitored Tony's blood pressure while he cradled a portable phone and asked a county trauma center for permission to bring in the case. He tried to insert an IV needle, but the boy, who spoke no English, cried and resisted. "No moveas," St. Andrew cajoled in semi-Spanish...