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Word: kneecaps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Petty Officer Harry Greening stood patiently at the end of the line, with an injured hand. The Red fire got hotter. Greening moved up: "Excuse me, sir, but I think I ought to get looked after a bit sooner now. I've been hit again." He was; his kneecap had been shot away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Shore Battery | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...findings. Last week three of the doctor's patients were easily identifiable as Cardinals. It was no secret either that the 1949 pennant hopes of the New York Giants would rise or fall on how skillfully Doc Hyland carved a bone growth from Catcher Walker Cooper's kneecap this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Doc | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...half hour later Mrs. Kosenkina was under police guard at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. She had a broken leg and kneecap and internal injuries. She would be hospitalized for at least three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The House on 61st Street | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...lonely road, another car crowded him to a stop. Two masked men got out, reached in from both sides, and beat McCabe with spiked lead pipes. Two hours later a motorist found him unconscious in a ditch. He had a broken arm, broken legs, a fractured kneecap, deep gashes all over his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Price of Freedom? | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...borrow him in times of crisis - such as last week's SOS from the Paris printer of one of our overseas editions for a plane-sped package of extender (ink dryer). He has even been useful in getting people to work. Recently, one of our researchers injured a kneecap and another, who had just recovered from a broken leg, offered to lend the invalid her idle crutches to come to the office on. Scorning a taxicab, Dailey strapped the crutches on either side of his motorcycle and admired the way people gaped at him in the streets. He would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

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