Word: knee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Weil's story of the bee-sting cure of an arthritic knee reminded me of my grandmother, who used bee-sting therapy to treat her arthritis. Grandmother was born in 1872 on an Indian reservation in Minnesota, and most likely it was there in her early years that she learned some natural cures that have benefited our family ever since. PATRICIA EARL Los Angeles...
...which was signed by more than 60 students and staff, states, "Although we are aware of the additional cost of heating the pool and extra staff, Blodgett Pool is unfortunately too far away from campus for those of us with children, and handicaps such as hip and knee replacements...
...Battle of Wounded Knee, last major confrontation between American Indians and U.S. troops...
...evening Oliver was putting on a pair of pajamas that had been dried on the backyard line when he felt a sharp pain in his left knee. He slapped at the spot, shook his pajama leg and out tumbled a bee. The next day Oliver's knee was tender, swollen and hot with venom. After another day or two, a curious thing happened: as the pain from the sting subsided, the ache from the arthritis in that knee began to diminish as well. A few weeks later, the swelling in all of Oliver's joints was gone. A short while...
...active and limber. I also had a quick mind to pick up steps and stunts. I'd look and I'd copy." Putting her dance techniques in the service of movie surrealism, she executed entrechats so they'd puncture a bad guy's windpipe; in her plies, the knee went thwok! in a man's most vulnerable spot. "My stunt coordinators constantly tell me not to kick so high," she says. "It's not the height that matters; it's accuracy, power, speed...