Word: kneed
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...crisis-intervention center. At 22 he joined, then edited, an alternative paper, The Flint Voice, while the industrial economy flailed and local jobs went overseas. "During the Reagan years we sat there in Flint and watched the Democratic Party cave in," he says, "watched the liberals be weak-kneed and wimpy and never stand up and fight for us. Liberals have failed us, the working people of this country...
Physical training at the academy is designed to ensure that air marshals are fit enough to endure a struggle. We did wind sprints, jogs broken up with calisthenics and a three-mile run through the rain. We kicked, punched and kneed one another through a thick pad. At one point, as I held my body in a Pilates position--sideways, supported by only my forearm and the side of my foot--I wondered where all the water on the concrete floor had come from. It was just sweat pouring off my face...
...Democratic Leadership Council. The DLC opened the current presidential campaign by supporting the war in Iraq, not reluctantly as John Kerry did, but with neoconservative gusto. In typical From fashion, the DLC blasted what he views as the Kumbaya wing of the Democratic Party for being weak-kneed on defense. From and DLC president Bruce Reed then attacked the candidacy of Howard Dean (who, ironically, was something of an Al From doppelganger--chesty, mouthy and combative). From, never very popular with mainstream Dems, gradually became toxic...
...Democratic Leadership Council. The DLC opened the current presidential campaign by supporting the war in Iraq, not reluctantly as John Kerry did, but with neoconservative gusto. In typical From fashion, the DLC blasted what he views as the Kumbaya wing of the Democratic Party for being weak-kneed on defense. From and DLC president Bruce Reed then attacked the candidacy of Howard Dean (who, ironically, was something of an Al From doppelg?nger-chesty, mouthy and combative). From, never very popular with mainstream Dems, gradually became toxic...
...time Glen Campbell got to Phoenix, he was soused. And medicated. The Rhinestone Cowboy was arrested last week for "extreme drunken driving" after a collision in Phoenix, Ariz. Police say Campbell became enraged while in custody and kneed an officer. The evangelical Christian says he forgot that the antianxiety medication he was taking shouldn't be mixed with alcohol. "Even at my age, I learned a valuable lesson," Campbell said in a statement. Which was... dab on a little styling mousse before your mug shot...