Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Little-above-the-knee...
...Save Eyesfrain." A month ago, Mrs. Woodward founded the Little Below the Knee Club and sent out a call to battle. The response was tremendous. By last week, the club had members in all the 48 states, in Canada and Alaska. In Dallas alone, 1,300 women signed up. San Antonio L.B.K.s issued a war cry: "The Alamo fell, but our hemlines will...
Despite all this todo, polls showed that, though a majority of U.S. women disliked the new styles, all but a handful planned to wear them. Oldsters recalled that there had been a furor, too, over the hobble skirt of the early 1900s and the above-the-knee skirt of the '20s, yet fashion had prevailed...
...last week, while taking off from tiny Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles southwest of Hawaii, an Army C46 and its crew of six smashed into a reef. Radioman Buster Bailey, 19, reached for a fire extinguisher, found that he had no hand. He crawled from the burning plane into knee-deep water, stumbled and discovered that his right leg was gone, too. His fellow crewmen got him to shore and tied their belts around his bleeding stumps...
...Baptist Dan Poling a potent figure in U.S. Protestantism. He throws most of his weight into two-fisted action, rather than into theological ideas. In college, he played football on Saturdays and preached on Sundays; once he appeared in the pulpit with two black eyes and a swollen knee. In 1912 he ran for governor of Ohio. Even if he had won, he was too young (27) to take office legally; but Dan Poling thought it was a fine opportunity to stump the state for Prohibition...