Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broad-bosomed, asthmatic Stella Vass has vague socialist principles and treasures a few memories of exhilarating political outings. She despises her weak-kneed husband Andrew, who slaves away in a demeaning job in a London bank. Trying to describe him to a friend, Stella explains: "Have you ever opened an egg and found nothing but a little dried-up tissue and hot, smelly air inside?" She goads him to stand up to his boss, the formidable J. T. Sarson...
...noise from Peking showed no sign of diminishing, and continued to fascinate the non-Communist world with fresh tales of old skeletons in Communist closets. In one announcement, Red China took full credit for forcing a weak-kneed Khrushchev ("who had decided to abandon Socialist Hungary to counterrevolution") to send Russian tanks into Budapest and crush the 1956 uprising. Peking radio also made an unprecedented reference to important factional disputes within the top ranks of the Chinese Communist Party. Khrushchev was accused of openly voicing support for "antiparty elements" in China. Western experts believe the Chinese "elements" Khrushchev was supporting...
...times were on the side of Harry Bennett. There were 16 million unemployed in the land, and hungry men were not about to protest when Ford forbade all conversations between workers in the factory, or when labor organizers were methodically kneed, blackjacked and even shot by Bennett-paid Detroit gangsters. Old Henry stood above and away from it all, refusing to believe that such abuses existed. In this vacuum of leadership, corporate cliques vied for Ford's erratic scepter. "The sinister Bennett" was pitted against the "dynamically ruthless" production chief Charles Sorensen; the "public-spirited...
...Kneed in the Guts. Dylan was born in Duluth but spent most of his youth in Hibbing, Minn. He started playing the guitar when he was ten, he says, adding that "the only trouble with playin' guitar is that you can't get the cheerleader girls." He ran away from home at 10, 12, 13, IS, 151) 17 and 18; he was, as he says, "caught an' brought back all but once." In his self-portrait in verse, My Life in a Stolen Minute, he recalls the events of his youth...
...fell hard for an actress girl who kneed me in the guts...