Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RESHEVSKY was born into a rabbinical family in Poland and learned chess as a kibitzer at his father's knee. At six, he was giving his father the odds of a rook and winning easily. Sammy came to the U.S. when he was nine, and promptly defeated a platoon of Army officers in simultaneous play at West Point. Then, when he was eleven, someone discovered that the boy wonder had never attended school. Merchant Julius Rosenwald, a Patzer and philanthropist, soon remedied this defect. Six months of tutoring brought Reshevsky up to high-school level and he went...
...three wars met in their first international match since 1937. But there were no incidents. Players of each team, carefully briefed on avoiding an untoward explosion, treated their opponents with elaborate politeness; nobody got hurt except a German center forward who fell down all by himself and banged his knee...
Right end has been a problem ever since Hank Rate twisted a knee in the first game. This week, Jordan has been using sophomore Bob Cochrane there...
Stargel's unavailability would send the Crimson against Columbia without at least two of its veteran starting linemen. Right end Hank Rate, on crutches as a result of his knee injury, watched yesterday's practice from the sidelines...
This is Rate's third year as starting right end. He hurt his knee against the Maroon, and spent the weekend in Stillman Infirmary...