Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Thompson of the Chicago Tribune floated down from the night sky with a flight of tough U.S. paratroops. It was his second invasion jump (the first: near Tabessa, Algeria, last November). He crashed through an olive tree before he hit the ground, cracking a rib, wrenching a knee, skinning his knuckles. His tired old secondhand portable typewriter got to earth in a parachute bundle. Thompson found it, hid it behind a stone wall. But by the time the paratroops had taken Vittoria, someone had stolen his portable...
...gave them a temporary haven. A swelling on Lawson's ankle had gone up to the knee. Three days later, the crew of another B-25 straggled in, and with them Flight Surgeon Doc White, who went to work on Lawson with blood transfusions. Dr. C. was forever poking a needle into Lawson's arm until his veins cowered. And then one day Lawson could no longer stand the scissoring away of the dead flesh...
...mothers were still Mexicans at heart. They themselves were Americans - resented and looked down on by other Americans. Jobless, misunderstood in their own homes and unwelcome outside them, they had fallen into the companionship of misery. They dressed alike, in the most exaggerated and outlandish costume they could afford: knee-length coats, peg-top trousers, yard-long watch chains, "ducktail" haircuts...
Italians (except their generals) are the happiest in captivity. They play boccie (a bowling game) and bridge (Culbertson). Both Germans and Italians play their own brand of basketball and soccer-the Germans a particularly energetic variety which keeps some of them in hospital with "soccer knee...
They came up out of the Times Square subways like pilgrims bound for Mecca. Most of them were children. Some were draped to the bricks in green porkpie hats, sharp canary-yellow coats, shrunken-ankle pants, and knee-length watch chains which tinkled in the 4 a.m. gloom. Zootsuited or not, they lined up at Manhat tan's Paramount Theater box office and waited. They were jitterbugs, and they were there to dig Harry Haag James, one time circus contortionist, virtuoso trumpeter, and leader of the nation's swing band sensation...