Word: kneed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose motto is. "We don't matter, only the kids"--generations of Americans negating themselves so that their posterity can do the same. Rabe is anything but subtle; nevertheless, his play is still powerful enough in the able hands of the Dunster House Drama Society to leave audiences weak-kneed...
...director Van McLeod seems to be trying unnecessarily for the oblique angle in an already oblique Brecht play. A few of the supporting characters present fascinating facades, especially Virginia O. Casey as the whorish girl friend of George Garga the librarian (and "wrestler") and Bruce Patt as a stoop-kneed, brutish Weimar version of Skinny, a Chinese clerk according to the text--but they get little assistance even from the more experienced members of the cast...
...took a gulp. The expression on my face must have amused them further, but I can only speculate, because tears filled my eyes, blurring my vision, and fire burned in my esophagus. Before I had recovered my good common sense, I resolved to show that I was no weak-kneed norteamericano, and I took another, deeper swig. I was gasping for air as I handed the bottle back and could only sputter out, "Que fuerte, que fuerte!"--How strong! They wanted me, their amigo, to take more, but I had heard stories of men going blind in World...
Winters are hard but bracing: "Our best time of year," according to a Duluth mine worker. "They build character," says Frank Barth, a transplanted Chicagoan. "They are a great blessing to us. You don't get the weak-kneed beachboys here. They can take it for one winter, then leave." Dr. Ronald J. Glasser, a Minneapolis kidney specialist and author (365 Days, Ward 402) who grew up in Chicago, argues that Minnesota winters account for a lot of the social solidity and character of the state. Says he: "You have to be strong and productive to survive here...
Horse racing history is, in fact, full of brilliant and expensive matings that have gone wrong. Champion mares bred to champion stallions have dropped foals that resembled neither parent in any respect except having four legs; the offspring have been pigeontoed, rough-kneed, cow-hocked, swaybacked, puny, soft-boned and wind-broken...