Word: knees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Majestic Prince and Arts and Letters were all alone at the last turn. The Prince with his high-kicking knee action came wheeling down the stretch constantly urged on by the left-handed whipping of Bill Hartack...
...stretcher for a mile to the evacuation area. Hot shrapnel severs the leg muscles of another Marine so badly that doctors later say that he should have been unable to walk, yet he runs more than 200 yards to a medical-aid station. A man with a smashed knee crawls 40 yards to a mortar position, props himself on his elbows, and helps load shells for five hours before reporting his wound...
...only injuries of the week were suffered by miler Jon Enscoe, bothered by tight muscles around the knee, and sprinter Chris Alvord, hampered by an injury to the arch of his foot...
Just about everybody did. In a game where fractured ribs and split noses are merely workaday inconveniences, Orr has compiled an impressive medical record. In a 1967 exhibition game he tore the ligaments in his left knee. He recovered in time for the season's opener only to have his right shoulder smashed out of its socket. The cartilage in the same knee was ripped two months later; he has since undergone two knee operations, and was sidelined for nine games this season. "People tell me I'm brittle," he says, "but I can't afford...
...never took his eyes from the pretty face of his potential rival's wife as he greeted her and exchanged pleasantries in the receiving line. But Mrs. Nixon, for one long instant, could not suppress a stare at those six lissome inches between Joan's hemline and knee...