Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than seven hours of Spillane-like night duty, Manhattan Detective Walter C. Bentley 1) was attacked by an assault suspect, who slugged him with a 5-ft. iron pipe, 2) carefully shot his attacker in the right knee with his service revolver, 3) took his prisoner to the station house and was then treated at St. Luke's Hospital for bruises of both shoulders, 4) reported back to duty, 5) jumped into the Hudson River in near-freezing temperature and rescued a drowning man, 6) retired to a hospital again to have a gash in his leg stitched...
Even more impressive than the number of patients who daily crowd Achille d'Angelo's waiting room in Rome are the names of some of the privileged ones who come by special appointment. For a bad left knee, Arturo Toscanini took ten treatments last summer from D'Angelo, self-styled Mago di Napoli (Wizard of Naples), and pronounced the man formidabile. Tenor Beniamino Gigli went in to be lifted from his nervous depression. Italy's Queen Maria José once sought D'Angelo's aid for her "weakened optic nerves...
...throb of a popular-music combo. And near the spot where a vested minister once stood at sermon time, a perky blonde in her stocking feet poised herself before a microphone and sang a little number about a fellow who wouldn't take his hand off her knee...
Last week easy, unpretentious Herbert Brownell was getting straight to the point as head of the mighty U.S. Department of Justice. Sitting in his red leather swivel chair with his left knee drawn up, his foot planted on the seat, his long, thin hands dangling, he seemed as relaxed as a ballplayer in midwinter. With his customary calm, he was facing tremendously important decisions on Communism, corruption, crime and the gamut of vital issues affecting the people of the U.S. The success of the Eisenhower Administration depends in large part on how well Brownell does...
...time New England AAU champion at 125.5 pounds, will lead a squad of five teammates in the 1953 version of this meet at the Boston Y.M.C.A. today. A winner in this event in 1950 and 1951, Lee was kept out of the meet last year by a knee injury...