Word: coccyx
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...teenagers trying to make the basketball team were bounding to school in Strength Shoes guaranteed to boost their dunk shots. Now, inventor Roger Adams is hoping Heelys, a trainer with a detachable wheel in the heel, will precipitate the newest skating fad. (Notebook recommends them only for the coccyx-negligent.) And a Swiss company's shoes simulate the way tall Masai tribesmen walk with a rocking, convex sole they call "the smallest fitness center in the world." Which goes a long way to explaining why the English had to invent the term "sensible shoes...
Back in Africa, Milingo began praying for cures of ailing supplicants, and soon hundreds were reporting miracles. One American nun, Frances Randall, a psychology lecturer in Nairobi, says she was cured of a painful broken coccyx bone. Cure-seekers streamed to Lusaka from across Africa, and Milingo healed others in the U.S. and Europe. When he attended an African bishops' conference, the sick congregated outside the hall...
...gymnastics with movements of the legs and hips. The doctor will feel around the abdominal area for tumors, which may be the real problem. He will also probe for pain around the kidneys and explore the rectum (purpose: to look for growths and check the condition of the coccyx, the lowermost four vertebrae, which are the evolutionary remnants of a tail). Finally the doctor will test the patient's reflexes with the time-honored taps on the knee and ankle, measure the muscles and test sensation with pinpricks...
...linear tension produced by common movements a bit too far, though. In "The Bow," he leaves his subject in such a low-squatting curtsey, her right leg extended stiffly like a dancing cossack, that given one brief moment brought to life, she seems sure to capsize and fracture her coccyx...
...aware of the bloody repression that the Chilean government is practicing [Aug. 18]. I am but one of the thousands of relatives who are engaged in the painful search for a desaparecido [missing person]. The alleged corpse of my brother, Luis Guendelman Wisniak, not only had part of the coccyx bone−which in his case had been removed when he was five years old−but also its twisted denture bore no resemblance. The miraculously uncharred plastic identification card was ripped and sealed with metal staples, the last name was misspelled, the photograph and fingerprint were not that...