Word: tendon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last fall during a performance in Covent Garden, Margot slipped and pulled a tendon in her ankle. With her leg in a cast, she could not dance again for three months, though she was scheduled to open soon in Ashton's Cinderella, which she had rehearsed for six months. It was the first time anyone had even seen her crushed. Unable to endure London without dancing, she went to Paris. Moira Shearer danced Cinderella in her place...
...before he got around to quitting, Pensive won the 1944 Kentucky Derby for him (at a $16.20 mutuel). That summer, Pensive bowed a tendon and was retired to stud. (He died last week.) By then Ben was busy with a Calumet filly named Twilight Tear, who struck a stride which finally carried her to 1944's Horse-of-the-Year title...
This week, for the sixth time in his eleven seasons with the Yankees, the big guy would be out of the line-up on opening day. But this time it was no mere strained tendon. As far as baseball was concerned, Joe DiMaggio, one of the greatest outfielders and money hitters in history, was in critical condition...
...news was an injury to Ray Frankman and another to Chip Arp. Both were top men with foils. A heavy blow knocked Frankman's sword out of his hand last week, and pulled a finger tendon at the same time...
First Down. One of the mighty had already fallen: Miler Gil Dodds, Boston's Flying Parson, who had won 37 straight, but was out of the trials with a strained Achilles tendon in his left foot. He was off the team-but still far & away the best U.S. miler. After Dodds, the U.S. sure shots, everybody agreed, were Negro Shot-Putter Chuck Fonville of Michigan, Sprinter Mel Patton of Southern California, and Negro High-Hurdler Harrison Dillard of Baldwin-Wallace. Each, in the past year, has broken a world's record...