Word: shin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite a sore shin and a broken finger, both suffered from being kicked, Harvard's last man and the epitome of its team, netminder Janet Judge turned aside 16 Huskie drives in a truly gutsy effort. The statistics cannot record the effectiveness of Judge's kamikaze pounces on any ball in the area, executed while knowing full well that a sprinting forward might slide into her. Neither can they assess the value of her gravity-defying jumps to punch the ball out of the area and squelch a corner kick...
...Cambridge for his freshman football season. Within two months he had been introduced to the kind of frustrating experience that seems to set Harvard in general, and Harvard football in particular, apart from other universities. He destroyed his knee, and then spent his entire sophomore season hobbled by shin-splints...
...lying in the bushes with his left leg severed at the shin and about ten feet away from him." Bergin said, adding that "his right leg was broken above the ankle and his right foot was partially amputated...
Mule, clearly the more skilled of the two, fought off a case of shin splints earlier in the week, only to have them return to haunt him while going into the press for the inward one and a half. Not wanting a balk scored against him, Mule continued the dive and lost points trying to regain form in midair...
...studio is buzzing. Because of the day's unusual guests-Begin and the giant sparkler-guards are everywhere: a dozen from the U.S. Secret Service, half a dozen from Israel's Shin Bet and another half a dozen from Cartier, which is showing off the diamond as big as the Ritz. Shortly before 7, Hartman comes downstairs, dressed in typically nondescript gray tweed jacket, dark trousers and brown loafers; he does not fancy himself a clotheshorse. He is told that Steve Bell, Good Morning's Washington-based newscaster, wants to talk with him, and Hartman takes...