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Word: kneeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through most of last year, with Negro voting strength nearly double what it had been in the previous election, white officials exercised remarkable restraint in dealing with Negroes. Even Gov. Wallace, running his wife as a stand-in gubernatorial candidate, learned to say "knee-grow" for the first time in his political history...

Author: By Stephen E. Cotton, | Title: Despite Perpetual Crisis, Still Publishes | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

Each mate discovers that freedom is, as the existentialists claim, a dreadful burden. Van Dyke is taken in tow by a fellow survivor of a divorce (Jason Robards), who hobbles around with a bad knee he is too alimony-poor to fix. In a devious scheme, Robards proposes to marry off Van Dyke to his ex-wife and get a leg to stand on. In return, the two find a candidate to marry Debbie: Van Johnson, a chipmonkish used-car salesman. Up to here, the infighting and jabbing are worth watching. But in the final rounds, Writer Norman Lear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The High Cost of Leaving | 7/21/1967 | See Source »

...other four: Monte Carlo's Hotel de Paris, Cannes's Carlton, Beaulieu-sur-Mer's La Réserve, Cap d'Antibes' Hôtel du Cap). It is also the most colorful, with its pink-and-green cupola, its doorman in blue knee socks, red pants, buckled shoes and jaunty red cockade, its one-ton Baccarat crystal chandelier in the lounge-and a main floor men's room copied from Napoleon's campaign tent, with toilet paper in saddle bags and spigots of 18-karat gold. No two guest rooms are alike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Aristocrats of the Continent | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

...country; they also say that they will soon start restyling white, Asian and half-caste girls as well. But among top party leaders, cooler heads seem likely to prevail. "Women want to look as attractive as possible," says one government minister, who insists that the back of the knee is a particularly unattractive part of the female anatomy. "These miniskirts and things are bound to pass with time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: The Minicultural Revolution | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...concurrent radiological treatment for what his wife, Actress Joan Plowright, describes as a "slight" cancer of the prostate; Elizabeth Taylor, 35, hobbling on crutches in and out of Princess Grace Hospital in Monte Carlo after a tumble aboard her rented vacation yacht Odysseia aggravated a chronic case of synovitis (knee inflammation) so badly that she may have to be operated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 30, 1967 | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

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