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Word: kneeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nuri's family to Palestine when a German-backed army coup momentarily toppled his government during World War II. On their return to Baghdad, their son Ahlam was born in 1942. Though at first opposed to the marriage, Nuri Pasha used to dandle little Ahlam on his knee, kept his picture on his desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Grandson of Nuri | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...Vivien Leigh, Cinemactor John Mills-for a painful song-and-dance. The show, at a benefit for an English orphanage, barely-creaked through. During a zesty rehearsal the day before 1) Sir Laurence strained a tendon, 2) Vivien, leaping into Mills's brawny arms, slipped and twisted a knee, 3) Mills cropped up with a case of sore ribs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 4, 1958 | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...getting the ball down the middle. In 1949 a doctor, after examining his vision, advised him to quit baseball. But Ryne persisted, finally licked his wildness with the help of Manager Lefty O'Doul at Vancouver in 1956. "He taught me to aim at the catcher's knee, at his shoulder, at his belt," says Duren. "To move it around, one ball high and away, the next low and inside. I tried and it worked." With Denver last year Duren pitched a no-hitter in his first start, had a 13-2 mark, walked only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fast & Loose | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

...isle of Brioni in the blue Adriatic. In that way, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, President and founder of the New United Arab Republic, could escape the heat built up by his subversive doings in Lebanon. And he could also pursue his studies at Tito's knee in the perilous and racking business of how to run a revolution with Moscow's approbation and material help-but without letting the Russians take him over. After lolling on the beach soaking up the shrewd master's useful counsel on the dangerous game that 66-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC: The Adventurer | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

Poor-Rumped Relatives. Every Harris relative proved a flack's bonanza. There was Roy's father, "Big Henry'' Harris, a 237-lb., 47-year-old bear who has been called "the best fist, knee, knife and heel fighter in the territory." Big Henry raised his two sons, Roy and Tobe, as fighters, roamed saloons for daring comers, now tells Roy to whip Patterson "or I'll whup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pressagent's Delight | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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