Word: kneeing
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...need to kill her," Eckardt allegedly responded. "Let's just hit her in the knee...
Though she had been favored to win the national title, Kerrigan was forced to withdraw from the competition. Her doctors said she was suffering from * thigh contusions and swelling in the knee and was unable to control a simple hop, never mind a program that included several triple jumps. The assault cast a deep shadow on her ambition to earn a medal in next month's Olympics. However, even Kerrigan's rivals admitted that she deserved to be on the U.S. team, and on Saturday night officials in Detroit selected her over the runner- up, 13-year-old Michelle Kwan...
...unidentified man attacked U.S. figure skater Nancy Kerrigan -- a contender for an Olympic gold medal -- as she practiced for the U.S. championships in Detroit. The assailant struck Kerrigan in the knee with a club and fled. The attack was reminiscent of the stabbing of tennis star Monica Seles in Germany last year. Kerrigan has withdrawn from the nationals but may yet compete in the Olympic Games next month, if the U.S. Figure Skating Association decides to offer her a place on the team...
...much as they scare us with their reactionary, knee-jerk rhetoric, Perot and Limbaugh scare Washington even more, Politicians tremble when they sense that public opinion, which they thought was theirs to manipulate, is escaping their control. Even though Limbaugh and Perot exploit our cynicism to promote themselves, they unwittingly create an opportunity for the public to engage itself more constructively in political life...
...Stockings that cover the entire area from the shoe to the bottom of the pants, and that meet the pants below the knee. Players are permitted to wear as many layers of stockings and tape on the lower leg as they prefer, provided the exterior is a one-piece stocking that includes solid white from the top of the shoe to no higher than the mid-point of the lower leg, and approved team color or colors (non-white) from that point to the top of the stocking. Uniform stockings may not be altered (e.g., over-stretched...