Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next year, hardly aware of what was happening, she perched on her grandfather's knee as he and her father were sentenced to prison for opposing British rule in India. Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was to spend years in prison while his only child grew into a shy, frail adolescent. He wrote her a long series of laboriously educational prison letters, now widely read in Indian schools, that covered the whole history of the world. "They were the only companionship I had with my father," she later recalled...
Then something went awry. He took a bad spill at Saratoga that fractured his knee. When he returned to the Santa Anita track in California during the winter of 1979, his fairy tale turned to nightmare: a seemingly endless 110-race losing streak. Other riders murmured that he was tentative, for a jockey the kiss of death. The once-upon-a-time darling was lustily booed. Recalls Cauthen, with typical stoicism: "I was a bit shocked about the way people reacted to what was happening to me." At his lowest point, he accepted a lucrative offer from the wealthy English...
Uncle Harry pulls her close, pats her knee and offers to buy her a Michael Jackson T shirt if she will come across with "one of those kisses I like...
...Harvard offense never seriously threatened after its first scoring drive, thanks in part to the twisted right knee of junior quarterback Brian White--who left the game at the start of the second period and did not return until the second half--and thanks in part to the swarming, aggressive play of the far more talented Penn defense...
With White on the bench nursing his injured knee, Vecchi took over, but on his first pass from scrimage, the senior signal-caller hit Penn's Peter Gallagher squarels in the numbers...