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Word: kneeings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Instead, though, Lothario Lahr settled for a whirl at the posh Murmuring Sands Hotel and the charms of a predatory female who invites him skindiving. "You do snorkel?" she asked. "Oh, fluently," replied Lahr with outrageous, beady-eyed insouciance, and in a trice he has filled out a preposterous, knee-length bathing suit. With a meddling, mixed-metaphored assist from Comedienne Doro Merande ("Don't jump the gun half-cooked"), Lahr got away with bushels of bad jokes ("I was married, but now I'm estranged." "I'm a stranger here myself"), some broad-farce ribbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...married. Still, Mary and Sinclair developed an intellectual sort of friendship, and in his circle she began to meet Fascinating People. There was Anarchist Emma Goldman, who was apt to throw vases (filled) at her lover. There was Sinclair Lewis, who sort of absentmindedly squeezed Mary's knee under a Greenwich Village tablecloth. There was a young poet called George Sterling-given to flowing tie and knickerbockers, a great sonneteer after the first 14 lines-who once knocked on Mary's apartment door. "Goddess!" said he, and dropped on one knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uppie's Goddess | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Otherwise, injured Crimson players worked out despite their ills. Chet Boulris and Walker, who sustained neck injuries Saturday, were in action as was tackle Jack Foker, who hurt his ankle then. Don Gerety, now apparently recovered from his knee injury, also practiced hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Key Regulars Remain Out As Squad Drills for Penn Game | 10/30/1957 | See Source »

...Story, she suffers the shock of initiation: an austere cell so cold that the holy-water stoup is sometimes frozen; the regimen of the "custody of the eyes," i.e., never letting them stray from a modest downward glance; the "instruments of penance," ranging from a scourging cord to metal knee and elbow bracelets studded with blunt-tipped nails. As early as her fifth day, Sister Ursula feels "a dreadful sick sensation as though an immense and clammy toad had settled just below my diaphragm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ex-Nun's Story | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...other hand, Indian captain Tony Gittes is not expected to start at his regular fullback position, a knee injury reportedly intervening. Thus, Jack Zipes and Mitch Engle, with Malin, will probably comprise Dartmouth's last line of defense...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Favored Soccer Varsity Faces Dartmouth Today | 10/25/1957 | See Source »

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