Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mess! Why isn't it 1922 instead of 1942? And I-twenty-two, walking through the Tuiler-o-o-o with a copy of Ulysses . . ." And where was Lisa, murmuring with her "pink-lipped, delible pout"? In her place was a "dolled-up drab" named Inez, upon whose knee Baxter laid "a pitying hand." She squealed: "Oh, sugar, we're sure gonna have a time...
...patients; 110 were heart cases, including 30 "blue babies." Two of the patients owe their lives to the oxyhemograph. One blue baby was saved by quick administration of oxygen when the chart showed a sudden dangerous lowering of blood oxygen. The other patient was having an operation on his knee when he swallowed his tongue and started to choke. The chart gave warning in time. The machine has proved especially useful in long operations and in all operations on the heart. It can tell the surgeon, even before he sews up the incision, whether an operation on the heart...
...sweltered, people were humming a bouncy new jukebox favorite called Baby, It's Cold Outside. It was all about a girl who kept protesting that she had to go home and a boy who kept insisting that she stay. Outside, he warned, the snow was knee-deep. Queasy NBC first banned the lyrics as too racy, then decided they contained nothing provably prurient, and put the tune on the air. Baby hit the hit parade and began climbing...
...yank the rein. The old school was replaced by the present District branch; an age limit of 14 to 18 was set; closer control was imposed on after-hours activities. At the same time, tuition was dropped, salaries boosted, and uniforms of all pages made uniform, except for the knee-breeches which the Supreme Court still requires...
Last week, comfortable in blue knee-length socks, red fur-trimmed bedroom slippers and a loose-fitting smock, the great harpsichordist was finishing up the first sixth of a monumental recording task begun in her 70th year. In the darkened studio, her eyes closed, she began to play the great Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C Sharp of Johann Sebastian Bach. Before the weekend was over, she had also played the rippling No. 6 in D Minor and the fugue of No. 7 in E Flat to complete the first eight of the 48 brain-and finger-cracking preludes...