Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last, when the cutting-room floor was knee deep in yards of discarded inspiration, Warner Brothers were ready to expose their biggest picture of 1940 to autopsical critics and a public stunned into advance reverence by the thunder of advance publicity...
...rope passed to a double-hitch... had to observe the opposing team. . . . He gave signals verbally or by facial signs and he had the all-important job of taking in the slack or letting out the rope, by skillful handling of the 'knot.' Anchormen sometimes had knee trouble and broken arches but not heart strain...
What he really believes in is "the Great Spirit -that's the true religion." What the Great Spirit consists of is James Fair's private affair. But eight years ago, while recovering from a knee operation, he was inspired to contribute to the Great Spirit a unique devotional labor...
...Four of them have scotch and water on the knee," he admitted, adding that the Mt. Auburn Street aggregation had lost their punch at their "dance" last Friday night...
Some fans attributed the Yankee breakdown to Sparkplug Joe Di Maggio's absence from the lineup for three weeks because of an injured knee. Others said rival managers, discovering that the Yankees were allergic to left-handed pitchers, fed them nothing but southpaws (lefties were responsible for nine of their 14 defeats). Still others suggested ennui, overconfidence, the law of averages, and a recent American League ruling that forbids a World Champion club to trade or buy players from rival clubs. But Manager Oscar Vitt of the Cleveland Indians, chuckling over his team's position just behind...