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Word: kneeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern Times. In Launceston, Australia, conforming to the civic motto, "Progress with Prudence," city fathers amended an old bylaw requiring swimmers to wear neck-to-knee bathing suits, decided to allow more modern apparel on the beaches, provided the suits cover at least three inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 26, 1956 | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

...scene is an act of high poetic terror: he leaps, epileptic with triumph, from his balcony to the bell rope that is tolling in his reign, and down it he goes, twirling like a mad chimpanzee in his surely insane lust to see the first man bend the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 12, 1956 | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...start laughing instead of cussing when I miss those shots, he's going to stop me from playing golf. So every time I miss a shot you're going to hear a haw, haw, haw." Ike's only real complaint was about his "football knee," a relic of his West Point days. "You know," he told Walter, after walking six holes, "my knee twinges now and then . . . First time in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Psychological Breakthrough | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

Cappy Cappon, Princeton's veteran coach, will probably start Dave Fulcomer, his outstanding sophomore center; Fred Perkins, Don Davidson, Ken MacKenzie, and either Captain John DeVoe or Ben Spinelli. Devoe twisted his knee in Friday's game and is a doubtful starter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting Crimson Five Meets Powerful Princeton Tonight | 2/15/1956 | See Source »

John DeVoe left the game with a wrenched knee after seven minutes of play, while the Crimson was making one of its two concerted drives. The four-point edge the losers enjoyed at the time was their biggest of the night; they soon went into a tailspin that saw the Tigers come from 13-15 to 23-15 in five minutes...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Princeton Tops Varsity Five, 68-55 | 2/11/1956 | See Source »

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