Word: kneeing
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Mary Lou had to prove it during the weeks leading up to the opening ceremonies. In June, torn cartilage caused her knee to lock. She flew to Richmond, Va., for eleventh-hour arthroscopic surgery to remove three fragments that had drifted under her patella. Doctors operated at 8 a.m., making three small incisions to remove the cartilage, clear the blockage and restore flexibility to the joint. At 7:30 p.m., she boarded a plane to Houston; the next morning, she was in the gym riding an exercise bike. Exactly two weeks after the surgery, she was flying through...
...Joan Benoit, just being in the marathon constitutes a triumph. Less than three weeks before the May trials, the women's world-record holder from Maine underwent arthroscopic surgery on her complaining right knee, which finally shut down completely in practice. With microscissors, the doctor snipped a tight bundle of inflamed tissue from just behind the joint on the outside of the knee. "You could hear it snap," he said. "It was like cutting a rubber band...
...carved out a solid solo career for himself, but for all the others, this tour probably represents their best shot at the big glory. Each of the six brothers stands to make millions by the time the tour is scheduled to end in November. (Jackie, suffering from a knee injury and sidelined from the tour, will nevertheless have a share of the revenues...
...Knee-jerk reactions into public verse...
...twelve-year-old boy's sweet smile makes a poignant contrast to his otherwise pitiful appearance. His arms and legs are deformed and bent, as though he had suffered from rickets. Several fingers are missing. A large open wound covers one knee, and the smiling lips are bitten raw. He looks for all the world like a battered child, but only nature is to blame for his condition. He was born with an extremely rare genetic defect that makes him insensitive to pain. His fingers were either crushed or burned because he did not pull his hand away from...