Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of comfort even religion cannot afford that I read in TIME (May 15) the fine article on "handsome, patrician Joseph Clark Grew." For so long you have described and accented the personal defects of politicians, statesmen, actors & actresses, and other persons of prominence as "bowlegged or knock-kneed, or hair-lipped or cross-eyed, or bald or paunchy" that it is a real and solid pleasure to know that Ambassador Grew is "handsome and patrician," and . . . makes me feel that my belief and faith in TIME as a pleasure-giving, information-gathering publication has not been misplaced...
...have had enough of diplomatic appeasement and apologies for it, enough of "Little Steel formulas" made of papier-mâché, enough of "States' Rights" shouted from astride pork barrels. . . . We are fed up with weak-kneed Administrations, Congresses, political parties (both of them). Give us even so much as one individual in all those places who will follow the policy of frankness and confidence, and he can have anything America can give. Remember that all political power still is delegated by the people. And they take away. The people know exactly what they want...
...beast was no longer skinny and bag-kneed; its once limp and drooping trunk now swayed with menacing promise. But the G.O.P. elephant mostly drowsed or shifted from foot to foot. Every time the Party seemed about to wake up, a red-faced, elderly mahout named Harrison Spangler tiptoed up and made quiet, shushing nursery-noises until the pachyderm was soothed and drowsy again...
...Cockeye Johnny, self-styled King of the Gypsies. Says Johnny: "To the Department of Welfare, I may not be no king and to the King of England, I may not be no king, but to those poor, persecuted gypsies that I run myself knock-kneed looking after their personal welfare, I am king." A gin drinker, Johnny mixes it with Pepsi-Cola, calls it old popskull, consumes five quarts of gin a week. Johnny believes there are but two kinds of merchandise: "lost and unlost. Anything that ain't nailed down is lost." Johnny gets easily worked up over...
...about our Smoker . . . you might like some of the stuff we did . . . Paced by "Mrs." TRAMMELL O. (All I do is knit!) SMITH, a slightly swollen matron-about-town, a Navy Wives Club such as no Navy wife has ever seen headlined the skit. . . A bevy of hairy, knobby-kneed "girls" which played bridge, guzzled beer and madly chased anything remotely resembling a husband was composed of men from Section...