Word: kneecap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dinette area, which has a vinyl floor. The heels were plastic and the soles were vinyl. I never waxed the floor, so it wasn't slippery; I was very careful about that. My heel slipped on the vinyl and down I went. They had to remove my kneecap. It was a three-hour operation...
...Franco Zeffirelli, flung out his arm in a gallant gesture toward the driver. "My one thought was to save her face," he said later. As it turned out, Driver Gina Lollobrigida picked up no more than a bruise on the left cheekbone of her pretty face. But a broken kneecap required two operations-one to repair the fracture, a second to remove the scars-before the famous gam was as good as new. "I was very lucky," said Gina...
Feeding the Hot Hand. Baylor's career appeared finished after a horrendous accident in 1965 that tore off the top eighth of his left kneecap, followed by surgery for removal of calcium deposits. All last summer, under the direction of Dr. Robert Kerlan, the Los Angeles orthopedic surgeon who won fame for treating Dodger Hurler Sandy Koufax's arthritic pitching arm, he did special calisthenics to strengthen his joints-and snapped back this season to average 26 points a game, win a berth on the N.B.A. All-Star team...
Women's fashions have never been leggier. And so, with skirts still riding well above their knees and winter's icy blasts already on their minds, women are searching for new ways to beat the now familiar problem of polar kneecap. The surest bet seems to be boots, and all across the country women are besieging stores for this year's rage: high-rise stretch vinyl or synthetic-leather boots that pull on and off like gloves, and reach all the way up the thigh...
...somewhere above the knee for daytime, and are almost always to be worn with over-the-knee boots in soft glove leather or stretch vinyl. Come winter, those boots will offer women a promise even more welcome than the thrill of feeling like a buccaneer: an end to polar kneecap...