Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with his father, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, played a vigorous game of tennis on the family courts at McLean, Va., and skied at Sun Valley. Now young Teddy faces a drastic change in his lifestyle. Last week he was recovering from the amputation of his right leg above the knee -an operation made necessary by the discovery that he had a rare form of bone cancer...
Young Teddy's ordeal began earlier this month when he told his father that his leg hurt and that there was a swelling below his knee. The Senator, who is chairman of the Subcommitee on Health, called a committee consultant, who in turn recommended a specialist...
...several cases, Nixon's own hand has been on the wrecking bar, his own fingerprints' on the press-ruining bucket of sand. When the Boston Globe's Tom Oliphant was indicted for covering a mercy drop at Wounded Knee, I asked deputy press secretary Gerald Warren whether Nixon was aware of what was going on. Unequivocally, for a change, Warren said "yes." Thus it was the president himself who approved the dragging out of that reckless case until finally even the Justice Department had to wipe the indictment off its books. Nixon's trophy: agony for Tom Oliphant...
Kidder finished with eight saves for the game and Yale pounded 23 shots at him. Munro said yesterday that Kidder, who was shaken up the week before in the Brown game, went into the Yale contest with a groin pull, a bad back and injuries to his knee and ankle...
...intent is no guarantee of understanding (as Thoreau well recognized when he remarked that if he knew for a certainty that a man was coming to his house with the conscious design of doing him good, he would run for his life). In this particular case Mr. Garin's knee-jerk panacea of conscription must be looked at a lot more closely and must not just be adopted because a certain Richard M. Nixon happened to support the all-volunteer military--after all so did George McGovern, Henry Rosovsky, Playboy magazine and Barry Goldwater...