Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...services to the Crown (supplying soldiers and bearers) in World War I. Again he went to London on business, as a director of Akim, Ltd., a diamond mining company. He wore a heavy golden crown, a purple and gold toga. Wherever he went, a small black boy in silk knee breeches walked before him. The boy was the repository of Sir Ofori's soul. He also carried Sir Ofori's heavy ceremonial sword. A year ago Death, as it must to all men, came to Sir Ofori Atta in his ahinfie (palace...
...newcomer gets a false sense of security. Hearing none of the usual din of battle, he comes jeeping along, admiring the scenery, when-ping-a sniper's bullet shatters his daydreams. . . . Japanese bullets and knee mortars can kill just as surely as von Mackensen's railway guns at Anzio...
...First Canadian Army fought for four weeks across the oozy Dutch polders, plodded relentlessly through knee-deep mud. Floods, pouring through demolished dikes, were so deep that often troops had to push through captured towns in amphibious vehicles. A British correspondent described the battleground as "the abomination of desolation." For days on end, he said, the troops had to stand waist deep in water. Canadian Pressman Alan Randal claimed that "conditions were the worst that the Western Front had seen in this war." He found two Canadian units that had been "fighting twelve nights and twelve days without rest...
Other foreign perils were short, knee-length skirts, stockingless legs, and "wonderful shoes with the full bare heels show ing." Said one of Sobolev's characters, a Red Army man, drawing on his experience: "Probably not enough material to finish the shoes." Said his witty comrade: "No, the Rumanians have a tradition of showing their heels in war." "The women," Sobolev conceded, "are handsome in a standardized way, with carefully made-up faces smoothly pale in spite of the burning sun, with hairdos which are a little too artful and with striking dark red pouting lips - the fashion seems...
...muzzle velocity" to his backs, who will run from the "T" more often than last year. Besides newcomer Dean Sensanbaugher, brilliant Ohio State back, West Point has Doug Kenna, its wonderful unknown; if he finally struts his stuff (he broke an arm in practice in '42, cracked a knee last year), Army's backfield will go places and do things. But Blaik still has his line - and Navy - to worry about...