Word: kneeing
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...Starr skated alone up the middle of the ice and lined a knee-high puck past Dunn...
...through." He is accompanied in his polite progression through the thrashing mass by hostile remarks about the unions, which the riders blame for much of their discomfort. The conductor passes below full-color images of joy and transformation: a naked woman wrapped in a quilt leaning against the knee of a man stroking her hair, a brilliantly lighted couple kissing forever...
...people remember, Svetlana frequently struck Olga. When the child was five, an acquaintance in Carlsbad, Calif., recalls, "Olga had been playing next door with a friend, and Mrs. Peters was not particularly happy about it for some reason. When she called her home, Olga came running, fell, skinned her knee and cried. I picked her up to comfort her. But her mother started smacking her on the bottom for falling down." Olga's upbringing was almost a case study of how some parents tend to reenact with their own offspring what they suffered as children. Svetlana's mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva...
...that she was suffering from a rare congenital defect known as pseudarthrosis (false joint) of the tibia. In the one out of 140,000 children who is born with this condition, a leg bone may be so weak and unstable that it gives way almost as easily as a knee joint. Fully 50% of these children ultimately lose the affected limb...
...even broadcasters--a little more conciousness of the capacity to inflict injury, a little more concern about that... I think a recognition of the kind that Howard Simons just gave us if you do that to some private individual you may have to pay, instead of always having a knee-jerk reaction...