Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After four years of knee-and-gouge legal battle with the U.S. long-haul trucking industry. 24 Eastern railroads emerged last week with a black eye that is likely to remain visible for some time. In Philadelphia, Federal District Judge Thomas
...cruelty, license, fear, bombast and bullying." Then there is Vivian, who never does find her rich old man. Instead, she gets slapped around by a sailor. "His body closed in on her and there was a brief violent scuffle, with Vivian pounding at him, trying to bring her knee up to jab him." Later, of course, "she closed her eyes, sagging against him like a coat on a hook...
...Captain Tom Hooper and John Copeland will start at the ends, Pete Briggs and Shag Shaunessy will be the tackles, and Tom Hill and Hal Anderson are the guards. Hill is taking the place of Jim Keating, who is out for the year with a badly injured knee. Bob Foster will be the starting center. This line averages out at a hefty 207 pounds...
...Basuto "Russians" were waiting with jungle knives, needle-sharp iron rods, battle-axes and a few guns. When the Zulus bore down, the Russians tried to corner each one singly. Then, in the horrified words of a local police officer, who witnessed the scene, they would "hack his knee or his Achilles tendon so that he would drop, then slowly, neatly, talking to him all the while and wishing him a pleasant journey to Hell, proceed to pare his head with a knife until he fell dead...
...Keohane has also been temporarily side-lined with a bad knee...