Word: knee
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crimson failed to meet the required team minimum of four players after captain D.J. Hynes reinjured his knee and sophomore Sam Lissner contracted a virus...
...These subjects are controversial enough that I do expect, and have already received, some knee-jerk reactions: on the right, saying that this [is a way of saying] that the origins of this nation aren't Christian, or some kind of politically correct glorifying of savages; and on the left, saying that I am trashing them by saying they are violent, and not perfect stewards of nature. In fact, Indians were human beings, just like anybody else. Like anybody else, they did some absolutely amazing stuff, and some stuff that makes you roll your eyes...
...must rely on her teammates to catch her. At cheerleading camp, she ends up sporting an ice pack after one of them, inattentive for a split second, accidentally socks her in the face with an elbow. Katie's push to be perfect has left her with tendinitis in one knee, requiring a brace that she always carries in her backpack. Once, her vision faded to black, smack in the middle of a tricky tumbling run involving a back handspring and back tuck (though she kept going). None of that, however, compares to the sheer terror of getting a D, which...
Fortunately, I can say that I am learning loads. Though I’ve only been studying the language for a year, I find myself already knee-deep in insights about the Russian culture. Upon finding out, for example, that 95 Rwandan troops were being launched into Sudan to stop the genocide there, I found myself marvelously tickled...
...brought to local converts. "It is pure soul surfing for most of them," says David Boardman, an Australian staying at the resort. For the idle Liava'a, it was friends' involvement in the sport and their brightly colored surfing magazines that sparked his interest. Having had two serious knee injuries playing rugby as a schoolboy, he appreciates how surfing can provide equal or greater thrills without rugby's bone-jarring collisions. "I love it," he says. "It is fun for hours...