Word: kneecap
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...most authoritative canons of taste will not defend the dining hall staffs in their war against Bermuda shorts. When worn no longer than twenty-three inches from the waist and no shorter than two inches above a clean kneecap, even Brooks Brothers will advertise shorts in their store windows. Nor is there any justifiable objection from those who dislike bare legs. Socks, when worn properly, are no more than than three inches below the knee. At best--or at worst--depending on one's sartorial Weltanschauung, five inches of flesh is exposed...
Hemingway's African injuries were a ruptured kidney, bad burns, cracked skull, two compressed vertebrae and one vertebra cracked clear through. These were added to scars that cover perhaps half his body surface, including half a dozen head wounds, 237 shrapnel scars in one leg, a shot-off kneecap, wounds in both feet, both arms, both hands and groin, all acquired in the two World Wars. By last week he was much improved, but his back was still bothering him. When he sat, he lined his chair with big flat picture books and a backboard. "I have to take...
...addition the Cavaliers put out Harvard's Captain Vince Moravac for the rest of the season with a broken kneecap. The final score itself proved to be a sharp reversal of the Crimson's opening victory when more fortunate scheduling had provided cartoonist Peter Arno with the opportunity to quip about the Harvard graduate. On that occasion, the eleven whipped Western Maryland...
...world assumed that Hemingway, one of the most accident-prone of famous men (he absorbed 237 separate and distinct pieces of metal as an ambulance driver on Italy's Piave front during World War I, has an artificial kneecap, bears scars from a World War II automobile accident, a collapsing ceiling and innumerable other mishaps), was dead. Newspapers all over the world ran scare headlines and obituaries, Havana waiters wept, millions of Hemingway readers expressed shock and sorrow...
...then to make a recap Go over every kneecap And see if they compare with what belongs...