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...Walton's only season free of injuries, he took the Trail Blazers to the league championship and won the Most Valuable Player award in the playoffs. The following year, Portland again jumped off to an early lead. But midway through the season, Walton broke the tarsal navicular bone in his left foot, just under the ankle. Though hobbled, he returned for the playoffs...
...Clippers took no chances: they secured a $1.25 million insurance policy on their fragile star from member companies of Lloyd's of London. When Walton began the 1979 exhibition season, he developed a crippling pain in his left foot. It was discovered that he had rebroken the same tarsal navicular bone. He came back to try again in early 1980, went up for a rebound - and injured the bone yet again. Walton made a final attempt at taking to the court during training camp last fall, but the pain in his foot was so severe that, at last, Walton...
...lobby mainly in the form of such lines as "The strains of Stravinsky ceased ..." and "He looked up from the Times Literary Supplement . . ." Comedy creeps in (looking for its shoes) when, for instance, a doctor mentions "metatarsals" and a sweet young thing asks, "Who did you say met a tarsal?" In a line here & there appear half-suffocated indications that Margaret Kennedy could still, if she wished, write another bestseller as good as The Constant Nymph. Even as God's amanuensis, she has not done it this time...
...charms work? Emotional impulses, Inman thinks, may cure as well as cause warts. Dr. Inman nods knowingly at folklore stories of people getting rid of eyelid styes by rubbing them with wedding rings. He checked 158 patients, found that 92% of those with styes and 80% of those with tarsal cysts (tumors of the eyelid) had "an exceptional interest in birth." Just why such concern should affect eyelids, .Dr. Inman is not sure. But he reasons that "serious chronic inflammations in the body generally might be beneficially influenced by systematic psychoanalysis...
femur fibula humerus patella tarsal tibia...
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