Word: sprain
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Torby Macdonald, injured Monday afternoon, will definitely be out of the baseball lineup for two weeks and probably for longer. X-ray pictures were taken of the injury, revealing nothing more than a serious sprain...
Probably a bad sprain or possibly a fracture of an ankle bone, the injury will keep Macdonald out of the lineup for at least ten days, and more likely longer...
...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...