Word: splint
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Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire was once a lone loper on his way to the Capitol. These days, however, nearly half the Senate is running in office. The freshman Republican class are avid members of the shin-splint generation, and six of them suited up one morning at sunrise to puff on the mall. Despite a wind-chill factor of 0°, Wyoming's Senator Alan Simpson, 47, Virginia's John Warner, 51, New Hampshire's Gordon Humphrey, 38, Minnesota's David Durenberger, 44, South Dakota's Larry Pressler, 36, and Iowa...
...that relay, the team of freshman Sherry Lubbers, Costin, Kelly, and Jane Fayer (Fayer is swimming with a splint on her broken toe) set a new team record with a time of 3:51.23, breaking last year's record of 3:53.14.however, the time was not quite good enough, as B.U. edged Coach Stephanie Walsh's women in that final event of the meet by 0.2 seconds...
Connors played erratically for most of the tournament, going to five sets with Stan Smith before pulling out a win. He was bothered by an injury sustained in a pre-Wimbledon practice session and played with a metal splint on his right thumb...
...child is age eleven or so, a fingertip that is not damaged below the first joint will often regenerate spontaneously if left alone. Thus instead of suturing up smashed or amputated fingertips, Dr. Illingworth and her colleagues merely clean the damaged digit, hold it in position with a sterile splint strip, cover it with a nonstick dressing and a mitten bandage, and then let nature take its course. Illingworth notes, for example, that a three-year-old girl whose fingertip was treated surgically following amputation in an accident was left with a permanently deformed finger. But a five-year...
...medical treatment given the huge filly caused more comment. Immediately after Ruffian, her foreleg in an air-inflated splint, was moved to her trainer's barn, a mob of doctors, track officials and hangers-on descended...