Word: insteps
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...more and more people want in an increasingly affluent world. Even shopgirls and clerks seem willing to spend beyond their means to own the same kind of luggage or clothes as Jackie or Frankie or Princess Lee. The Gucci shoe, a chunky loafer with a metal snaffle across the instep and a price tag from $31 to $49, has become one of those subtleties of dress that are supposed to separate the Main Line from the wrong side of the tracks. Enriched by demand for such symbols, Gucci has opened branches in London, Paris, Manhattan, Palm Beach and Beverly Hills...
Over the years, hockey players have added shoulder pads, kidney pads, shin guards, ankle guards, instep guards-until they now wear something like 25 lbs. of protection. But few wear anything to shield the face and head. Masterton's death has sparked demands that pros wear helmets-as do players in most amateur leagues. "I'm going to take a careful look at the possibility of wearing one," says Chicago Black Hawks Star Bobby Hull, and his teammate, Stan Mikita, insists that he will wear one "from now on-so I can spend next summer cutting grass instead...
Metal leg braces are all too familiar to the victims of such disorders as muscular dystrophy or polio. The double-bar braces are heavy and clumsy, with a stirrup under the instep, and they induce muscle atrophy by permitting the foot to move only up and down. In normal walking, the body's weight tends to throw the heel of each foot alternately either outward or inward, depending on the terrain, but such movement is prevented by the conventional brace...
...five years old. Her feet, softened in a broth of monkey bones, were compressed in a bandage two inches wide and ten feet long. The four lesser toes were folded back under the sole, and the front of the foot was drawn back toward the heel until the instep collapsed upward into a grotesque ball of bone. The process sometimes required four years to complete, and during all that time the foot suppurated and the girl lived in punishing pain. Sometimes a child died of gangrene or blood poisoning. At last, the foot was reduced to what foot fanciers called...
...said Portland, Ore., Police Lieutenant James E. Harvey to some 80 housewives, career girls and students. "Scratch his eyes out. Bring the heel of your hand up under his nose and break it. Smash him in the larynx and he'll have difficulty breathing. Tromp on his instep, that's always very good. And use your knee as hard as you can in the groin. You'll drop him to the ground -and he'll be a very sick fellow...