Word: kneeing
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...connoisseur of the con, Brown has wrapped his knee with a bandage and hobbled with a cane, which brought him $200 in one week. After a brief hospitalization for pancreatitis, he wore his infirmary bracelets like a badge and pulled in $100. Although he professes faith in God, Brown will even cheat the churches: not long ago, he and a buddy collected nearly $75 when they made the rounds of local houses of worship with a former employer's business card and a tale of a job waiting if they could only get bus fare...
...relatively simple operation is similar to arthroscopic surgery, in which damaged tissue is removed, typically from knee joints, through a hollow tube. In the diskectomy technique, a stainless-steel tube, guided by X ray, is slipped into the incision until the tip of the instrument rests against the disk. Next the surgeon threads a combination cutting-suction device the diameter of a pencil lead down the cannula, pushes it gently into the center of the disk and steps on a floor pedal. Suction draws disk material, which has the texture of crab meat, into a porthole near the probe...
...basement an American canoeist who has converted a small coal bin into a stagnant river crouches on one knee and endlessly paddles nowhere. His sloshing is a nighttime sound of the neighborhood. A roller skate wedged beneath his forward foot simulates the bobbing boat. Old mirrors of every shape, rescued from dressers and garage sales, are suspended all around. In each of them, he checks his technique against the home movies he has taken of the Rumanians and Swedes. This is the Olympian getting ready...
Meanwhile, on the other side of deception, the Japanese gymnast Fujimoto broke his leg at the knee near the completion of his floor exercise. Not wanting to worry his coach or teammates, he kept the torturous pain to himself ("My whole blood was boiling at my stomach") and performed wondrously on the side horse before glancing ruefully up at the rings. Everything in Fujimoto's ring routine looked normal until the grimace just before the dismount, when he compounded his fracture with a dislocated knee and crashed in a heroic heap. Last year Tim Daggett also powdered a leg bone...
...city and hear the Berkshire Mountain Boys, Beat Acker and the Billings Gap, Southern Rail and other groups sing the songs of the Appalachians along the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border at the second annual Birch Hill Bluegrass Festival. A weekend pass includes two days of fiddle tunes, knee slapping music and camping space and can be purchased for $20. Admision Saturday only is $11 and after 6 p.m. is $5. Children get in free when accompanied by an adult. Sunday the admission price is $9. Hours Saturday are from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. and Sunday from...