Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most sports-related injuries fortunately neither kill nor cripple. They merely incapacitate in various ways. Cyclists are prone to knee pains, numbness in the fingers from pressing down on low-slung handlebars, lower-back problems from the bent-over position, and, yes, simple but irksome saddle burns. There are also reports of a more unusual disability in men that has been traced to long hours of bike riding: temporary sterility...
...lower than today's 707's and 727's, and economy-class seats will be only 18 in. wide, or 2.4 in. less than today's already cramped accommodations. Even narrower will be the seats in an eight-abreast charter configuration-only 16 in. across. Knee room will be marginally improved because seat backs will be thinner and the lower part of the seat in front will curve inward...
...into a waiting truck and whisked off into the night. When Righi's ongoing flight departs, the "prelate" in his seat is Colonel Vladimir Panin of the Soviet KGB, physically the monsignor's double, and now fully disguised with a black suit, clerical collar, and a briefcase on his knee...
...with the surprising San Francisco Giants, leaders for most of the season, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, all within a series sweep of each other. Cincinnati's sturdy bullpen has helped save the day, and Rose is trying harder than ever, disregarding a bad shoulder and a gimpy knee. Says Rose, who separated from his wife this summer: "Nobody has as many personal problems as I have, and I think I have as many injuries as anybody. But I play. I want to play, and I want to play every day. Everybody tells me I'm crazy, but that...
...each show, Springsteen will drop to one knee in front of the mike and yell with the sort of mock melodrama that cloaks an almost literal truth, "I'm just a prisoner . . . of rock 'n' roll!" In the audience, his fellow lifers laugh and cheer, delirious inmates in the same cell. Of all those prisoners, though, only the Boss holds...