Word: tendon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blood was jetting out more than a foot. I was afraid the car would catch on fire, so I got my knife out of my pocket and went to work. The skin was not too hard to cut, but every time I chopped through a tendon I felt a jerk in the nerves of my neck. The cutting was made easier by the fact that bones in the arm were broken through. I just followed the line of the break with the blade of my knife...
...Elis dropped out of the mile relay when second man Larry Reno stretched a tendon, and the crimson pulled in second behind the Tigers, Reno had previously carried off the dash from the Crimson's Bob Twitchell...
Injuries have put the Crimson at as added disadvantage. Berk Johnson, regular left outside, is still on crutches; Dana Getchell, his probable replacement, has been having trouble with one foot; Craig Zane, starting right half back, has a strained Achilles tendon; and George Baker and Bill Cowperthwaite, reserve linemen, are both limping...
...People in Virginia have to pay federal income taxes too," the agent assured him. For a dreadful moment it was so quiet in the office that you could hear a tendon snap. "You're kidding," gasped the doc. But everyone thought the doc was kidding. Last week in federal court, even his own lawyer suggested that his story was "fantastic." The judge cried "Preposterous!" and fined...
...students were even more enthusiastic about it than the surgeon-professors. The University of Kansas has used black & white TV for two years, but the switch to color ("like the difference between a wheelbarrow and a Cadillac") makes it far easier for students to tell a nerve from a tendon, something which was impossible among confusing shades of grey. Color TV is also an improvement over color movies. Says one Kansas student: "In the movies, you always knew everything would come out all right. Here, you never know when the guy will strike a snag. It keeps you watching...