Word: sprain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tear out," he says simply. He wears the large black coat principally because it has huge pockets in which lots of adhesive tape may be kept. Keeping things from falling out of the pockets makes him run so stiffly. The player injured will usually have a contusion, abrasion, laceration, sprain, strain, or sometimes a fracture or dislocation...
Last week she had the misfortune to sprain her back. Consequently, in her match against Betty Knox, No. 5 on the British team, in the first round of the British Squash Racquets Championship, she won the first six points, then lost...
When a parachute opens, the hemisphere offers such air resistance to gravity that descent is checked to about 16 ft. per second. This amounts to a force equal to that of jumping from a ten-foot fence, often sufficient to sprain an ankle. Chutes can be partially guided when the jumper wishes to avoid landing in a clump of trees or a pond, by pulling the shroud lines on the side toward which he wants to go. In a high wind, if the jumper does not unharness himself before he lands, as he must do when landing on water...