Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eight, when his father died, and he had to go to work as an apprentice in a pottery run by an older brother. He became an expert thrower on the wheel, but an attack of small pox led to an infection and chronic weakness in his right knee. (Constantly bothered by the condition, Wedgwood finally decided a few years ago to have his leg amputated...
...without equal in the history of the game, was skating off to become a Chicago Black Hawk. What would make beloved Bobby leave the Bruins? A reported fiveyear, $3 million contract. What would enable all Boston to blink back the tears? The knowledge that Orr's rickety left knee (five operations in the past eight years) allowed him to play only ten games last season. But at week's end Orr checked out of a Toronto hospital, where doctors examined that wounded knee and decided against operation...
...hazing at the Point, such as forcing plebes to know the number of lights in Cullun Hall (340) and the capacity of Luck Reservoir ("Seventy-eight million gallons, sir, when the water is flowing over the spillway"). But the sadistic practices of the past have been abolished-doing deep knee bends over the point of a bayonet or forcing a cadet to run up five floors of the barracks, don a new uniform and get back down in 21/2 minutes...
...Boss Rocco dePerno drew nearly $20,000 in 1974, over and above his regular salary of $46,000 and the $30,890 he got as a general organizer. Even non-Teamsters share the pension riches. In 1974 the administrator of the Ohio Drivers' Welfare Fund, Dayton Attorney Robert Knee Jr., was paid $878,900-about 5.5% of the fund's assets...
...annual banquet held last week, the team chose defenseman Greg Jackmauh, who sat out almost the entire year with a costly knee injury, and faceoff specialist Sandy White as the co-captains for next season. The Most Valuable Player award went to scoring ace Tennis and sophomore defenseman Chris Ecker was named the most improved player for starting all 15 games after not playing as a freshman...