Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidate for city council, said last week the platform "locks the candidates into positions" without enabling them to respond to new evidence bearing on the issues. Clem, who ran with the CC '75 slate, says he wants to "maintain integrity and flexibility, and avoid restricting the city council into knee-jerk reactions...
...when the matter of the desk came up. Long needed every vote he could command or cajole from his colleagues. His was a classic dilemma, solved in classic Russell Long style. He cut a deal ? first with his father's shade, then with Olin Johnston. On bended knee, he explained his sacrilege: "Daddy, forgive me, but this time I'm going for broke...
...least hospitable places on earth. A steady wind moans over the crocodiles basking on the banks of blue-green Lake Turkana and flattens the knee-high beach grass where the long-horned oryx graze. Beyond stretches the desert of northeast Kenya, baked by the African sun. In a wadi, or dried-up stream bed, not far away, a sandy-haired man moves slowly, his loose shorts and shirt flapping in the breeze, his head bare to the sun, his eyes searching the arid soil at his feet. Some 50 ft. away, sandals scuffing dust into the air behind...
Both prognosticators played high school football but turned to the cerebral side of the game when they came to Harvard. Matthews broke his arm playing high school ball back home in Middlesboro, Kentucky; Zbikowski tore up his knee while serving as captain of his schoolboy 11 in Detroit, and both have become reconciled to playing House football...
...Paris was a fox in the hen house. It was days of sit-ins and Freedom Riders, when SNCC was still Salt and pepper, days of the first push for voter registration down in Darkest Alabama and if you were one of the chosen ones, one of the lucky knee-grow winners in the Great White Liberal Guilt Sweepstakes you could do no wrong. Of course, shooting a righteaous game of hoop...didn't hurt any either...