Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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French sculptor Apelles Fenosa set out to tell, with one human figure, the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane. He molded a statue of a woman knee-deep in fire; her throat seemed to swell with a scream; her arms were lifted. Fenosa's Oradour will shortly be placed in a square in Limoges-the town near Oradour's seared site...
...minutes after Masquerade begins, idealistic cabaret Sarongstress Dorothy Lamour finds herself in Mexico City, knee-deep in a diamond theft, and falling in love with Patric Knowles. As a sort of cushion-shot to win his venomous wife (Ann Dvorak) back from her bullfighting Mexican lover (Arturo de Cordova), Knowles helps Dorothy masquerade as a Countess and gives her plenty of opportunity for song and romance with the bullfighter on the flower-strewn waters of Lake Xochimilco...
...front-line viciousness flared up again. In his master's backyard in Albany, Calif., Rex suddenly rose with a snarl, leaped a seven-foot fence, set upon 65-year-old Ume Akazi, a woman of Japanese descent. Before his master could pull him off, Rex gashed her knee severely...
...Bura, a 31-year-old civilian amputee with a bent for engineering, was appointed chief of the VA Division of Prosthetic Devices with the job of speeding new inventions to the wearable stage. Bura, who walks so well himself that no one realizes his leg is off above the knee, is credited with having "revolutionized" the Army's methods of teaching amputees to walk...
Game Bird. In Houston, duck-hungry Stanley J. Bonner was shot in the knee, by a duck which collided with his pistol hand...