Word: kneeing
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...Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Brown...
...Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Brown...
...herky-jerky, elbow-popping moves that invariably send fastballers to the showers?or the osteopath. Rather he has a kind of loose, flowing grace that allows him to snap off a high, hard one with seemingly effortless ease. After dipping into a deep windup, he cocks his right knee to his shoulder, rears back until the ball is almost touching the ground behind him and then, in a whipping overhand motion, smokes it across the plate. "Vida has three things going for him," says Oakland Catcher Dave Duncan. "First, he's overpowering. Second, his ball moves. Third, he's sneaky...
...been troubled for so long by inflation and balance of payments deficits that European money markets respond with knee-jerk nervousness to almost any news about the dollar. Thus, last week, the latest word from Washington sent money speculators scurrying to the major exchanges. Cause of all the excitement was a report issued by the Congressional subcommittee on international exchange and payments. Committee Chairman Henry Reuss of Wisconsin and his colleagues suggested that the U.S. dollar should be devalued -preferably by an upward revision in the price of strong currencies like the West German Deutsche Mark. Short of that, they...
...youth, a recent convert to yoga, told Chusid that he often sat on his heels for periods of up to six hours while chanting. The position placed great pressure on the peroneal nerve, which winds about the head of the fibula (outer leg bone) just below the knee. After the youth agreed to do his chanting while standing, his feet, if not his inner tranquillity, gradually returned to normal...