Word: knees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Popeye. In Salem, Mass., suing Benjamin Pope Marion for divorce, Nancy Rice Marion, 29, testified that he put her over his knee, spanked her, poured a bottle of beer over her head to "cool her off" because the spinach she served him for dinner had not been chopped...
...drowned at sea. Or was he? The insurance company sends Dana Andrews to investigate. Dana's way is barred by large numbers of hostile fauna - cobras, stuffed leopards, baboons, Jeanne Grain, elephants, hippos - but he comes through grandly, with nothing more than a case of explorer's knee, to the climactic "Mr. Henderson, I presume...
...youth sitting with bound wrists on one knee and violently downthrust head on the other. He gives an impression of immense vitality borne down by even greater, unseen weight...
...most famed Rough Rider on San Juan Hill. He ran successfully for governor of New York and Vice President of the U.S. while bands blared A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and admirers extravagantly told of his exploits (Finley Peter Dunne as "Mr. Dooley" wrote: "In Wounded Knee he busts a broncho that has kilt almost th' entire male popylation; busts it so har-rd 'twud dhraw a baby cerredge without wakin' the occupant...
...square-jawed Englishman with a remarkable past and an even more remarkable spirit. He was only 21 when, in 1931, he suffered his first and most serious accident as an R.A.F. pilot officer. His right leg had to be amputated at the thigh, his left leg below the knee. For many it would have seemed an end. For Douglas Bader, it was only a beginning...