Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks after his right leg was amputated above the knee to prevent the spread of a rare form of can cer, Teddy Kennedy Jr., 12, appears to be making an excellent recovery. Having adjusted to his new leg well enough to walk a few steps without crutches, Teddy confidently joined a pre-Christmas family sledding party in Virginia. Then he arrived at Palm Beach for a vacation with his family at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy. He rejected a waiting wheelchair at the airport and made his own way to the car. The next day, Teddy, wearing...
...Boucher, as the Goncourts put it, it was "a vocation to leave some trace of his art on every passing manifestation of fashion." The tumbling, rosy cupids and tiny pastoral scenes with shepherds in knee breeches that are the cliches of rococo chinaware decoration were largely Boucher's doing. He painted on fans and carriage doors, snuffboxes, escritoires and ostrich eggs. And when Louis XV put Boucher in control of the state tapestry factories at Beauvais and Gobelin, he brought about the last flourish of grand-scale European weaving. No designer since Boucher has managed to raise tapestry...
...three years I successfully curried her favor--it was the only way to function. I memorized all the assigned passages, never chewed gum, and wore skirts no shorter than two inches above the knee. I knew she liked me best because she let me fill her water glass. I asked myself the question that Hebe must have asked perennially, "Do I dare fix her drink...
...MAIN ATTRACTION, of course, was Winter, a ghostly figure in silver-sparkled sneakers and knee pads to protect him during his stage acrobatics. Winter played keyboards, drums and sax with a vengeance, but the crowd reacted most to his haunting voice that can range from a mellow bass to a piercing shriek. Most of this show was shrieking, as Winter opened with his driving "Keep Playing That Rock and Roll" and went straight through to his last encore of "Undercover Man" without letting...
...hour-long operation, on the following Saturday morning, appeared to go equally well. Doctors cut back the skin, muscle and other tissue, sawed through the bone above the knee and then drew the remaining tissue down to form a well-padded stump. Teddy's recovery seems to be going even better. A day after the operation, he left his bed briefly and read some of the thousands of letters and telegrams wishing him a speedy recovery...