Word: cramp
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...Sunday's double-header with Bentley and Boston University, the stick women followed the ball a little bit too much a symptom of fatigue. When forwards follow the ball, they collect in the middle and cramp the offense, giving the attackers less room to work with and the defense less space to defend...
...extraordinary performance, but it was no more remarkable than the finish of Guy Gertsch. The Salt Lake City bus-station ticket agent finished No. 985 in the entirely ordinary time of 2:47. But he did it on a broken leg. Gertsch, 38, felt what he thought was a cramp starting after seven miles. But he was determined to finish, and so he pounded on for 19 more miles before collapsing at the finish line. Doctors, who later set his right femur with a steel rod, theorized that his powerful thigh muscle had acted as a splint until he finally...
...Kennedy arrogance is a perfect expression of American arrogance. And we expect the world to treat us like we've treated John Kennedy. Our reluctance to acknowledge the special conditions in Latin America, our desire to cramp the world within the confines of an anti-Soviet ideology--these are the bars of the Kennedy imprisonment...
When the gloves had finally settled and both teams were banished to their respective locked rooms, rink announcer Lloyd Perimeter suffered through a case of writer's cramp trying to get all the penalties down...
...years were by no means free from care. Like Job, he suffered from boils. A beloved granddaughter was married to an alcoholic. As friends and relatives died, the old survivor came to feel, he said, like a tree without branches. He was plagued by financial worries. But nothing could cramp his generous heart. When things were at their worst, he was likeliest to buy an elegant $135 watch for one granddaughter, a pianoforte for another...