Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coggeshall, meeting stiff competition in the two mile race, may take a fourth or fifth, while Tom Holyoke, whose leg is taped from knee to groin, may find the going difficult in the broad jump...
...However glaring the failures of our colleges and universities in the past, they have given protection to the things of the mind and the spirit and they have refused to bow the knee to a materialistic culture. That position they must not surrender...
Boys are taught how to creep and crawl, break arms, kill with bayonets and knives, gouge eyes, knee the enemy in the groin. They are warned at the start to expect bloody noses and black eyes - especially when teams tear into each other with no holds barred. They take their lessons in dirty fighting seriously...
...advance guard of Japs approaching. "They got no more than ten yards away," he said later, "and everybody started firing and scattering." Ross got two wounded men into a shell hole and dived into a six-foot crater. Three other men joined him, one of them wounded in the knee. The prize fighter started throwing grenades...
Author Rich lives in the wilds with Husband Ralph, Son Rufus and various dogs, skunks, neighbors. She bathes in a washtub placed near the kitchen stove. She uses ("supreme test of fortitude") an outhouse, which in winter can be reached only through knee-deep snow. "Bear and deer and wildcat tracks are all in the day's walk, while a stray human bootprint throws us into a dither...