Word: knee
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...Long before the official midnight showtime, those who know are pulling on knee-high boots and leopard-fuzz bikinis. My friends and I came prepared, mostly. Between us we had a French maid apron, lace-up ankle boots, and a dress which ended, depending on one’s walking speed, somewhere around the crotch...
...many sports-related topics, but also often knew more about sports than just about anyone I had ever encountered. My colleagues’ analytic and encyclopedic knowledge of sports forced me to hear them out, and in the presence of such expertise, I quickly realized that my knee-jerk Boston homerism wasn’t going to cut it. I had to—and I wanted to—reconsider my opinions to make sure they actually made sense. And while many of them did, some of them didn’t.Of course, I haven’t completely...
...nation’s problems. Kennedy’s withdrawal clears the way for bolder Democrats to seek the party’s nomination without incurring the wrath of devoted fans of his brothers’ Camelot. On the two broad issues, creative Democratic alternatives—to the knee-jerk liberalism of Kennedy as well as to the simplistic atavism of Reagan—seem particularly key. Defense spending has long been a bete noire for the Democrats, and only recently have party leaders—including some presidential hopefuls—begun seriously backing plans for heightened military...
...slumped over a computer all day and not doing normal exercise. In previous generations when we were digging ditches or pitching hay, there was a type of what we would now call functional exercise where we're exercising the whole body. And that's what prevented low back and knee and hip and all the things we're seeing today. So we talk about the importance of core exercise and give a program that you can do at home and in the office, not requiring any equipment...
...fact, McCain has spent the majority of his life living with the physical disabilities and the mental trauma he suffered as a young Navy pilot. When his plane was shot down over Hanoi in 1967, McCain broke both his arms and his right leg at the knee. He was stabbed twice by a bayonet, had his shoulder smashed by a rifle butt and endured the angry kicks and punches of the mob that discovered him. Those injuries, along with the more calculated torture that followed during 5½ years of captivity, left him unable to raise either arm more than...