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Word: kneed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sundry apple hats, Fred Barton's Launce cuts the incongruous figure of a country bumpkin crossed with a New England preppie. Attired in billowy corduroy knickers and some kind of felt pot pulled over his wire-rimmed spectacles, he lopes through his role with slack-mouthed, loose-limbed, knock-kneed charm. His throaty voice and lascivious gestures make "Pearls" one of the funniest song and mimes in the show. Launce and his fellow servant Speed (Jonathan Alex Prince) run through some congenial duets on the way to the ale house, and Speed makes up for his raspy voice with quick...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Cuanto Me Gusta | 5/11/1977 | See Source »

Most of their adventures are like the weak-kneed camel that accompanies the pair: too tame. Even the sunniest tale needs an undertone of true menace to capture a child's imagination, as Disney in his early years rarely forgot. Here, in the movie's signature tune, Raggedy Ann sings that she's "just a rag dollie, happy and smiling all day." Fond, foot-tapping parents may tell themselves that this is enough. Kids know better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Suspended Animation | 5/2/1977 | See Source »

Harvard coach Johnny Lee might as well have fed gimpy-kneed Fred Smith (190 lbs.) to the Lions. Instead, he sent Smith out to face potent Jay Mulligan. Despite being called for stalling four times, the Crimson grappler fell behind 11-2 and then got pinned. With one bout to go, the match was even...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Matmen Bow to Chiefs, 26-20 | 12/1/1976 | See Source »

...tumblin' around my head all day. We gotta write a song about gittin' bit by a seeing-eye dog." His almost-heaven West Virginia accent laid me in the aisles, where I rolled over Tim Carlson, self-described "gangly, goofy, blushing, cowlicky, smartass, shynose, sloppy lunch eater" who kneed me in the funny bone, and from then on it was bubbly giggles, side-eyed glances, uproar...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I Got Bit by a Seeing-eye Dog" | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...knock-kneed mini skirted wig wearing died blond mamma's scar born dead my scorn your whore rough heeled broken nailed powdered face...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Nothing Black but a Cadillac | 10/9/1975 | See Source »

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