Word: kneeing
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Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, Dee Brown's Indian history of the American West, is a remarkable combination of style and sense of subject. Fundamental to the book's impact are two aspects of Brown's approach. Unlike many of his white predecessors, he has enough respect for the American Indian as to allow those involved in the losing of the West to speak for themselves to the extent that the white-recorded transcripts from the period allow them to do so. Equally important is the fact that Brown has taken a national perspective on his subject. Although there...
...Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Brown...
With a leg of Colonel Sanders's best wedged but drooping between his first and second digits and a full glass of not-so-sparkling New York State Champagne balanced on his knee, Schwartz waxed sorrowful and his head bowed low. Soon only a thin stream of years weaving its contoured trail down his cheek interrupted the comatose scene...
...Roosevelt. Did Wouk invent or acquire from some historical footnote that bit about the President's martinis? ("This is an excellent martini," Pug says to a beaming F.D.R. "It sort of tastes like it isn't there. Just a cold cloud.") Hitler's nervous little knee kick is familiar, but what about those "snatching, greedy fingers" as the Führer gobbles iced cakes at a reception? There are no great scenes. But a number seem splendidly effective. Among them: a Russian tank battle in the snow; an exchange of cheers and threats at a Kremlin party...
Coach Joe Restic reported yesterday that tight end Howard Keenan, out with a knee injury since the Princeton game, and Hevern are the only two Crimson players who will be sidelined with injuries against Yale...