Word: knee
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...common council concern is that students will not take the time to adequately educate themselves on the benefits of a termbill hike. Instead, students will make a knee-jerk response to the proposed costs, never considering its advantages. Many council members point to the myriad benefits that a hike could undoubtedly provide—better grants funding, bigger campus-wide events, top name bands; but, the council should remember that the onus is on them to convince the student body that the hike is necessary. They cannot rely on the excuse that students are apathetic and that, therefore, the council...
...stage! No one laughed, but I did I hear a few compassionate “oh” from the back rows. I quickly got back to my place—it wasn’t until the end of the show that I realized I had wounded my knee and started feeling the pain...
...probably remember from “A League of Their Own.” In the article, a feisty ex-pitcher recalled her career as a pitcher for the Rockford Peaches. She said, without any real rancor, that her skirted uniform stopped four inches above her knee, and that the league, early in its history, ran a charm school for its players. Suddenly, the league’s title grated. “Girls” seemed as antique and demeaning as the skirts or the charm school. Wasn’t our use of “girls?...
Have any of those other seasons featured me telling current Boston College freshman and fellow Regis High School alumnus Juan Maldonado that I’m going to strike him out in wiffle ball on three “filthy, knee-buckling” sliders—and manage do exactly as I had predicted...
...same Princeton team that took two of three games from the Crimson in the 2003 Ivy Championship Series to end Harvard’s season on that very diamond just 10 months earlier. Hendricks had been forced to watch that game in street clothes, sidelined with a season-ending knee injury, as the Tigers celebrated a title that the Crimson has always claimed to be its own rightful property...