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A trick knee is a bad thing to have."

Most of the condo owners now regard Vista as forever at risk, ready to buckle like a trick knee.

"Now tell me all about the kid in the john, with her cute little neck knife and her trick knee holster."

The simple-minded Ray has a trick knee.

A trick knee, a bad wrist or a nagging weight loss can spell disaster in the final throes of competition.

If you ask, 'What would you rather have, a broken leg or a trick knee?'

For Tubby, the trick knee has become a metaphor for his entire life: the anxiety, depression and dread he feels every day.

He tried to ignore the creaking of his trick knee and the rasping of his breath.

Apparently, Gimpy had a trick knee, and I had just made it jump through its hoop.

Not about emotional issues, heaven forfend, but about the swollen glands, the trick knee, the acid reflux.

Johnny had been one of the youngest adults left behind: heart murmur, trick knees, a surfeit of astrophysicists.

Coleman tried to join the army two months after Pearl Harbor; he flunked the physical on trick knees and a spastic colon.

Despite a trick knee he is drafted; Jack suspects that her father, who is on the local draft board and opposes their relationship, is the reason.

Mr. Lewis dredges up a world of constant humiliations, from his own trick knees to Grandma's being caught with her teeth in a glass.

He has a trick knee he can throw out of joint, he can fake a nervous fit, and a lot of other things.

Powerful Kichiro, still limping on his trick knee, smiled and moved the tape into his opponents' territory by a distance of two wall panels.

Starting Jan. 1, 1995, the bill would impose increasingly tight limits on the ability of insurers to exclude from coverage pre-existing conditions, like a trick knee or a cancer.

Corporal Donner's trick knee went out when he was climbing the crates, and Private Simms skinned his elbow when he fell on the macadam."

Some breeds of dogs are prone to certain genetic ailments such as elbow or hip dysplasia, blindness, deafness, pulmonic stenosis, cleft palate, and trick knees.

Her son, a top member of the quiz team in Bible class as a boy, a sports fan with a trick knee and a National Merit Scholar, is no more.

In Manhattan, Celso Quinones, the doorman at the Park West Hotel, said his trick knee starts to bother him when the temperatures drop.

Allison Jolly, for example, a 31-year-old Olympic trials contender in the 470 Class dinghy, has inquired about the institute's program; she has a trick knee and wrist injury.

"First of all," he said, "you know, when you worry about your knee, your trick knee, two bad disks and your lower belly, you're not leaping into bed like it's Woodstock.

IT was damp, cold and bitter enough to coax a trick knee into mischief or leave a 42-year-old back perplexed in midflex or plunge a famously fragile mood into crankiness.

Eyewitnesses saw a trick shot, a trick ankle, a taunting foul and a 53-minute player.

"It's my trick ankle," complained Dane.