Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American library, set up during the occupation of South Korea by some U.S. Information Service. Library was full of books on education, agriculture, mechanics, etc., generally practical stuff to help modernize and so forth. The building had been bombed and the books were lying around two rooms, about knee deep on the floor, pages torn, broken glass between them, muddied pages where GI's had stepped through the pile. I bent down to pick up a book. What was it? Obviously, it was "General Education in a Free Society," intact but not looking as if it had been well-read...
Rockabye Dudley (Fri. 12:05 a.m., NBC) offers a whispering disc jockey, knee-deep in poesy. Sample: "Here comes Rockabye Dudley/Out of the blue/ Floating on a light cloud/To you." The music is an approximation of the verse...
...nation's first, won later fame for the Dawes Plan (1924) for easing Germany's reparations payments. His profanity ("Hell 'n Maria") and tart, impulsive manner caused comment at home, more so abroad. In England, as U.S. Ambassador, he staunchly refused to appear in the standard knee breeches,* turned up at court wearing ordinary evening dress and at state functions smoked the big underslung pipe that became his trademark. A busy man all his life, he dabbled in projects from Chicago's 1933 World's Fair to California's Forest Lawn Cemetery, wrote music...
...urbanely skeptical Santayana holds that it is the only one of his books which has been "inspired." But anyone who has waded knee-deep in the old philosopher's stream of consciousness may feel there is more recapitulation in the new work than revelation...
...quite short and a sportswriter who paced off the distance last one night discovered that it is ten feet shorter than advertised. The Braves use Earl Torgeson at first base and he is the only player left in either league who still wears his pants at the knee. This does not help his appearance or his batting average...