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...face of gross racial segregation, the weak-kneed liberals on our State Board of Education have given up all leverage and released state funds in return for token gestures. As a result, the Negro population has turned it upon itself and found its salvation only in the lream of a black community governing the lives of black children, educating black kids in black classrooms under black teachers and headmasters. It is not surprising that this has happened and, in many respects, it is probably just as well. Whether we like it or not, in any event, the time has passed...
That, clearly, was too much to hope. Under fire as a "weak-kneed, wishy-washy liberal," as Barnett put it, Winter felt obliged to declare: "As a fifth-generation Mississippian whose grandfather rode with General Forrest, I was born a segregationist and raised a segregationist. I have always defended this position. I defend it now." Nonetheless, he has also managed to steer the debate toward Mississippi's myriad shortcomings-which include the nation's lowest per capita income ($1,751 v. a national average...
...whatever happened to little knobby-kneed Princess Anne? Well, she's a big girl now-and a pretty one, too. Arriving at a London theater to see a couple of saucy French plays, dressed in a blue silk gown, bejeweled and wrapped in a fur stole, the 16-year-old princess-on holiday from school-looked for all the world like a femme du monde, pouting at photographers from under loose-flowing hair...
Lynn, on the contrary, looks like a hockey star trying to look like a movie star. She seems to be bigger than Vanessa and to have more arms and legs?quite nice legs that somehow look sexy even though they are semaphorically knock-kneed. Lynn, continues Ustinov, "gives the impression of knocking things down by mistake because she doesn't know her tail is wagging." She has a kewpie-doll face countersunk in a strawberry-blonde mane; she wears what looks like fluorescent face powder; and she sometimes paints her lower lashes, Twiggy-style, so far below the natural eyeline...
...client, he needles his left leg and right arm with enough novocain to numb a mastodon. Willie plays it go, man, go. Borrowing against his hocus hopes, he picks up a fastback Mustang, a sackful of custom-tailored suits, a foxy set of fox furs for his fat-kneed wife. And when the insurance lawyers are ready to bargain, Willie makes them sit on wastebaskets and haggle like rug peddlers till in collapse they agree to pay his client...