Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would you risk certain death at the hands of the Nazi's to rescue a pregnant cow? Would you toss away fame and fortune to set up a national park in the jungles of East Africa? Well, maybe you wouldn't, but knobby-kneed David Niven and unknown John Steel take care of those two little things in this week's double bill at the Exeter...
Japan, fed up with six years of bowing before the occupiers, was also sensitive. The Japanese public applauded the sentence. The newspaper Yomiuri warned: "We hope the Japanese government, whose weak-kneed diplomacy was criticized in connection with the U.S. . . . agreement, will retain to the last their firm stand in the U.N. forces agreement...
Another CRIMSON editor, David L. Halberstam '55, claimed that he had been kneed in the groin by one policeman after that officer had failed to catch a photographer he had been chasing...
Moravia's new novel unravels the character of a Fascist-a weak-kneed fellow named Marcello whose troubles all seem to stem from a cruel streak and a wish to be "normal," to be like everybody else or maybe a little more so. The Conformist is not Moravia's best novel, but it is his most ambitious. Underlying it is the question that many an Italian asks himself: How could seemingly decent people have turned into Fascist bullies...
...nation and freedom-loving countries of the world can thank Warren Austin for what remains of the hollow mockery of a weak-kneed "world police force," known to us as the U.N., which cannot clearly define the word "aggressor" for fear of irritating a big bully...