Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least alluring covering ever devised for the female body, not excluding the Mother Hubbard, the feathers of the Harpies, or the St. Laurent trapeze, is the saggy, sorry habit of the British private-school girl. At best, the ensemble -long black woolen or cotton stockings, knickers that approach the knee, a vague navy-blue outer garment called a gym slip and a long-sleeved, high-necked blouse with a frumpy tie-makes her resemble a hockey goalie; at sorriest, a carelessly stuffed knackwurst. Cartoonist Ronald Searle immortalized the getup in his books on "St. Trinian...
...addition to the latter two, Tag Edwards, Karl Bjork, and Jim Tulenko still remain absent from the lineup, to further cloud the midfield situation. Attackman Dub Mallonee has been suffering from a knee injury and remains a question-mark...
Does Paar consider himself bright, shrewd and calculating when he raises his guest's dress to see if she is wearing knee socks and peers down her dress to find out if she has notes...
...stream, roared in around Marin County's Mt. Tamalpais in 100-m.p.h. gusts. In the first 3½ days of April, San Francisco got 3.96 in. of rain. Normal rainfall for all of April: 1.49 in. Rain cascaded down the city's spectacular slopes, spilled knee-deep into downtown streets. On residential Mt. Sutro a strange sea of mud 100 ft. long and 25 ft. deep seeped toward a couple of apartment houses. In the tidelands community of Alviso, almost all of the 1,000 residents evacuated their homes before 4-to-8-ft. floods. Against four miles...
...cotta fragments for years, were two bronzes (see cuts) that rank as masterpieces: ¶ A 19-in. statue of an Oni king in full regalia. Standing barefoot, clad in skirt, an amulet centered on his beaded hat, the Oni in bronze wears a bib of beads (presumably coral), a knee-length strand of larger beads (probably carnelian or agate), bead anklets, and wristlets. In his right hand he clutches a mace, in his left a ram's horn, the symbol of authority. Slightly idealized, it is unquestionably the portrait of an actual person. The present Oni says that...