Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's record-breaking high jumper Mel Embree, competing despite a knee injury, finished a disappointing ninth in this weekend's NCAA indoor track meet at Detroit's Cobo Arena...
...junior trackman did not jump at all this week in practice because of a mild case of tendonitis in one knee...
Embree, suffering from an injured knee, missed clearing seven feet, two inches on his first attempt, to place second behind Thomas Howell of Rutgers...
...reason is that he is diligent about his morning exercises. Right out of bed he spins off two miles on the exercise bicycle in his room. There follow 20 to 40 knee-lifts for each leg. The President sits on a low bench, straps weights of 20 or more pounds to each foot, then straightens his legs, building up those knee muscles injured in football. He does 25 or so push-ups and as many situps. Sweating and breathing heavily at the end of 20 minutes, he is ready for a shower...
...Award. Before an audience of 1,200, including Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston and Joseph Cotten, Welles was the picture of graciousness. "What I feel this evening is the opposite of emptiness," he said, as he accepted the award "in the name of mavericks everywhere." Then he dandled on his knee another enfant terrible and early Oscar winner Tatum O'Neal saying "You're terrific...