Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stiff knee? Arthritis? Get a surgeon to open you up and wrap the joints in cellophane. That is just what they're doing at California's Long Beach Naval Hospital. A surgeon there, Lieut. Commander Duncan Clark McKeever, reported last week that he had loosened up some 20 stiff joints with cellophane surgery...
This production capacity and Varda's color theory (each picture should be remembered for one color) interlace. "I can work fast in collage," he says, "because I know that I am going to do a yellow painting. I work knee-deep in papers. When I find the right yellow, I can go to work like a puma...
...human figures in the original plates are about 13 inches high. Low on each page, reaching approximately knee height, is a typical Italian Renaissance landscape with spires, aqueducts and ancient ruins among the rich verdure. Readers will discover that this background landscape is a connected panorama: if pasted together the figures would form a towering frieze of skeletons and variously dissected humans standing knee-deep in rolling, idyllic Italian countryside. Striking is the proud pese of many of the figures: man is drawn with his skin discarded, but holds himself in the stance of fullest dignity-sometimes as if addressing...
...playing compositions ranging from 16th Century dances to Handel on a descant violin, a treble violin, a viola da gamba, and a violone. All of these look very similar to modern instruments except the viola da gamba ("Viol of the leg") which is a small 'cello resting on the knee...
Munda. The battle for Munda and its isolated supply depot at Bairoko Harbor braked down to a process of slow elimination. U.S. troops had come to grips with the enemy in his ultimate warrens, and he was not an enemy who surrendered. Sloughing through knee-deep mud, the Americans were within capturing distance of both airfield and harbor, were cracking open the bristling, fire-spitting concrete and earthwork mounds in which the Japs have taken final refuge...