Word: knighting
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...holy bird thought to have first been discovered by the White Knight of Sanders. Even the simplest peasants undertook frequent pilgrimages to its shrines, hoping to bring home enough bones for the whole family...
...quasimedical brothel," sputtered Jill Knight, Conservative M.P. for the Edgbaston constituency of Birmingham, and called for a government investigation of the institute. Cole, who is also a lecturer in genetics at Birmingham's University of Aston and operates a thriving vasectomy-and-abortion clinic, professed bewilderment at the attack. "I could keep 50 therapists busy if I had them," he said. "One in ten British men needs help with his sex life." Meanwhile, Barbara Cole and other volunteers, male and female, were busy using the Cole method to teach men and women patients how to copulate successfully. Patients...
Then larger bombs appeared. A plastic sack containing three pounds of plaster gelatin was discovered in a major subway station after an Irish-accented caller alerted the press. A bomb concealed in a railway hobbyist's manual blew up in the face of Joanna Knight, a 25-year-old Stock Exchange secretary, as she was opening the morning mail. She suffered hand, face and arm injuries. Her boss, 61-year-old Exchange General Secretary George Brind, was also injured. Hours later a book bomb exploded in the mail room of the Bank of England, blowing...
...same tradition. Like those predecessors, he simply possesses his songs. A song written for Sinatra was Sinatra's; there could be no adequate convers. To my knowledge, only two of Morrison's songs have been covered: two mediocre versions of "Crazy Love," and, of course, The Shadows of Knight's "Gloria." No mean feat in these days of instant imitations...
Sealed Orders. Whoever was responsible apparently did not feel that the Pentagon's normal channels of secrecy would sufficiently guard the Cambodia bombing. Major Knight said that bombing orders in sealed, unmarked envelopes were secretly flown from Saigon by propeller-driven courier aircraft each afternoon before a raid. They were kept under lock and key until dusk-the missions were flown at night to avoid detection-then transmitted by radio to the approaching...