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...back, the first silver needle pricked the skin of my instep. The sensation was so slight it was as though I had brushed a filament of stereo speaker wire or touched the tip of a thorn. The needle was so fine and flexible that if not in the hands of an expert, it would have bent when meeting my skin rather than sticking. The next sets of needles went into my wrist, chest, abdomen and lower neck. I had been a pin cushion for 20 minutes before he at last applied his needles to the area I needed treated...

Author: By Michael Stein, | Title: Doctors on Pins and Needles: Acupuncture Reaches the West | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...gallery idol when he showed up for his first Open in 1913 at Brookline, the Crimson's home course. The Haig wore a garrish bandana tied cowboy style, a striped silk shirt, a plaid Scottish cap, and his wide laced brogans with the tongue moddishly doubled back over the instep...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Slice MIT, Bates at Brae Burn | 4/20/1977 | See Source »

THWACK! THUD! Jim Brynteson offered some advice. "Too much whirlwind," he said. "Use the whirwind at the beginning, not the end." McInally was still hitting the ball with his toe, not his instep...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: McInally, Bengal in Limbo, Quietly Returns to Harvard | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...know Tony?" McInally said, referring to the kicking specialist in Milford. "Well, he's convinced me I could kick soccer style. I'm the worst. I'm the worst in the world. I have no instep...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: McInally, Bengal in Limbo, Quietly Returns to Harvard | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

THWACK! THUD! McInally shook his head, upset that he still hadn't mastered the business of kicking soccer balls with his instep. He would practice a few with a football. "It's hard after all these years," he said to Lincoln and Brynteson. "And I was never coordinated...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: McInally, Bengal in Limbo, Quietly Returns to Harvard | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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