Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Entrez done, Monsieur," said a reserve police colonel. "The session is about to begin." He smiled broadly, then hit a middle-aged Arab with his right fist, below the belt. As the Arab went down, the colonel kneed him in the groin. The Arab tried to get up; another cop caught him across the jaw with a club. Down went the Arab and the next cop kicked him, twice. He got up again and ran into the arms of still another policeman, who poked him into a sitting position with the muzzle of a carbine...
...served as a playground and basketball courts, there was very little time during the day that these courts were vacant ... so Mr. Searle had ample opportunity to look for ghoulish girls. As a contemporary of Mr. Searle's and an "old girl" of the high school, that knock-kneed, spotty-faced gargoyle wearing glasses, in the chem lab of St. Trinian's [see cut] could quite possibly...
Each of these men contributed something more than the weak-kneed catch-all phrases, such as "excellence of the university" and "Integration and departmentalization," of which they were accused. Aside from these general hints, the CRIMSON did not say what each one had argued. And yet this forum, well attended by large and representative audience, was dealing with the fundamental reasons for Harvard's existence and the ideals it tries to embody. The purpose of the forum was not to determine Harvard's policy regarding Congressional investigations...
Rossi does not think the results of the survey mean Harvard men are weak-kneed creampuffs, or even more cowardly than Yalies. "It is easy to exaggerate opposition to going into the army," he says. "The impression given by the survey, at Harvard and nationally, is more of a lack of enthusiasm for military service than outright opposition to the idea. I doubt very much if any wholesale draft-dodging will come...
...Sica heightens his fantasy with a cast of unbelievable, but highly amusing characters, a grouchy tramp who longs to possess a silk hat, an effervescent, scatterbrained old woman, who dies and becomes an equally bouncing angel, and a weak-kneed general. To put across such unreal nonsense as Miracle in Milan, all the actors must show no signs of farcical acting. Since they do not, the motion picture is delightful...