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Word: kneeing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures, dressed for the humid summer in silk shirts, knee breeches and buckle shoes, rested against the Monument wall inside the wide circle of flags. One of the figures was the ghost of Thomas Jefferson, that noble idealist who symbolizes the dream of the American Revolution; the other was the ghost of Alexander Hamilton, who, perhaps more than any other single person, was the architect of the modern American system of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: A Ghostly Conversation on the Meaning of Watergate | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...always, hemline lengths "don't really matter" any more to the likes of Yves St. Laurent; as always, buyers and fashion writers looked first to the calf. The results were generally high-level (just below the knee), though midi-scarred U.S. buyers noted nervously that St. Laurent, Marc Bohan and others insisted on prolonging the scene in some of their models all the way down to mid-calf level. Ungaro even dipped to just-above-ankle, granny-style length for streetwear, to be worn over high-heeled boots. Still, there was much to applaud (if not to afford): daytime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Rags for the Richest | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...filming conditions were not easy. The IRA never sought to exercise any editorial control over the film but required the same discipline and careful behavior from the film crew that it demands of itself. Chase was responsible for the actions of his crew, reportedly on pain of having his knee broken...

Author: By Alice VAN Buren no-go, | Title: ...And Nothing But The Truth | 7/31/1973 | See Source »

Williams adopted Tommie Smith, another long-legged, long-striding master of the 100-and 200-meter events, as his idol. "He had a distinctive high knee style," Williams explains, "and I worked on developing a knee lift. If I ran to catch a bus, I ran high knee lifts. That was all Tommie Smith's influence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unfolding Toward Victory | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...gently signaled a lyrical passage with a crook of the finger and a nod of the head. A percussive, firmly beating section found him tapping a foot and doing shallow knee bends. Whatever his body language, the playing and singing were exhilarating in their bel canto mood and color, and the standing ovation of the audience was almost anticlimactic. As Sills put it: "He's going to be one of our great American artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orpheus in the Gray Shades | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

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