Word: chested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Players usually spend the weeks before Wimbledon fine-tuning their games. Borg spent the weeks before the 1976 tournament overhauling the most difficult shot in the game. Two hours a day for 14 days, he did nothing but serve. That regimen so strained the muscles in his chest and abdomen that he played in pain throughout the tournament. But it worked. ; "The new serve was why I won Wimbledon the first time," says Borg. "The people in the crowd had been used to seeing me serve for years, and suddenly, here I was, serving so different. They could not believe...
...Heartsounds, now in its third week on TIME'S bestseller list. Unlike Cousins' account, it has no upbeat conclusion about the body's ability to heal itself. Sorrow unfolds from the book's opening line: "He awoke at 7 a.m. with pain in his chest...
...bolted from the house in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge and rushed into the street. When police arrived with an ambulance, he was still running. "I can't stop!" he shouted. "I'll die if I stop!" His polyester shirt had melted onto his arms and chest, and he suffered third-degree burns from the waist up. At week's end he was still on the critical list at Sherman Oaks Community Hospital...
...call comes in to the central ambulance station at 10 Koptelsky Lane. One of 34 telephone operators notes on a lavender slip of paper the time, name, address and problem-chest pains and dizziness. The slip is relayed to a second room of dispatchers who stay in constant touch with the 36 ambulance substations in the city. Most substations serve a radius of two to three miles, but there are specialty brigades in such disciplines as cardiology that cover the city at large...
...wheeled the unconscious Jordan into the emergency room of Parkview Memorial Hospital, where surgeons operated on him for 4½ hours. They found that the first bullet had torn a fist-size hole in the lower left side of his back, sliced through his intestine and exited from his chest. A second bullet had broken into at least two pieces, apparently as it glanced off a chain-link fence a few yards from Jordan. Fragments struck him in the right thigh and upper left chest. During the operation the doctors removed three small fragments of the first bullet...