Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kansas City quarterback Joe Montana reportedly will retire because he doesn't expect to win a fifth Super Bowl, according to the San Jose Mercury News. Montana, who led the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl victories, injured his left knee in December. He reportedly wants to have knee surgery that would end his career while letting him remain active without pain. Sources told the Mercury News that Chief's president Carl Peterson wants Montana, 38, to publicly pin his decision on the injury instead of the team's prospects. So far, both the Chiefs and Montana's agent...
...flawed techniques of argument. His talk of an elite conspiracy has seeped into the political dialogue. It is becoming increasingly fashionable to condemn entire schools of thought without explanation, to speak of groups in sweeping and erroneous generalizations, to condemn any solution that is grounded in something deeper than knee-jerk common sense. In response to these trends, Democrats and Republicans who place the pursuit of truth above their party labels must acknowledge that "liberal academia" is not involved in a secret plot to destroy America. "Elite universities" are not motivated by secret political agendas. Those holding liberal views...
...dollars they make. Jackie Chan, Asian action-star extraordinaire, measures his by how many of his bones he has fractured while executing his films' incredible stunts. Let him count the breaks: "My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee-everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet." Chan broke an ankle while jumping onto a moving Hovercraft in his new film, Rumble in the Bronx, which opened in time for Chinese New Year last week. Fans queued up around the world...
...Cochran insisted, was actually too sparse to match such bloody crimes. And the lawyer produced the defendant himself, in photos and in person: pictures taken in the days after the murder showed Simpson's mainly unbruised body, and the former football star stood up to display his scarred left knee as evidence that he was too disabled to commit the murders. The effect of these maneuvers on the jury may have been what Cochran intended. Simpson, he was saying, is just like you, jurors-- flawed but essentially intact...
...disgruntled employee is Donald Sullivan, known to the rest of the town as Sully. His boss is Carl Roebuck, played by Bruce Willis. Since mangling his knee on the job, Sully insists that he is owed compensation. His one legged lawyer, Wirf, portrayed marvelously by Gene Saks, can't get the local judge to agree. Unfortunately for Sully, his lawyer isn't on a hot streak. He can't even predict the outcome of a case on "The People's Court." Sully has a better chance of collecting money on the Trifecta ticket--a longshot in horseracing--that he plays...