Word: cramp
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...natives don't-that American Puritanism is an anti-passion so powerful as to disorder the reason it purports to support. Beneath their cool New England exteriors, Alonso hints, Emerson and Thoreau-and Bronson-were as gloriously crazy as his own Don Quixote. He knows how consciences can cramp under strain, how idealism can gnarl the mind. He is not joking when he compares the 19th century Utopian experiment at Brook Farm with a Massachusetts mental hospital of today...
...today than it has had in a long time. Several men have recovered enough from injuries to compete without seriously risking reinjury. Sophomores Tom New, Jeff Brokaw, and Marshall Jones will all return to the lineup, and George Barker should be able to run more effectively since his leg cramp has become less bothersome...
Connolly suffered from a bad cramp in the last mile or so. "It was the worst I've ever had. I thought I was going to die." he explained. Meanwhile, Foye moved past Steve Shirey and Bob Varsha, both of Dartmouth, into seventh place, where he finished...
Even more impressive was the fact that Harvard won with such authority despite competing without four good runners. Tom New, Mike Koerner, and Jeff Brokaw never started because of various ailments, and George Barker dropped out after the first mile because of a leg cramp...
After five years of tests and medical treatment, including physiotherapy and psychotherapy, Fleisher's doctors are still unable to come up with a cure. Indeed, they are not even sure of the cause. The official diagnosis is that Fleisher's malady much resembles writer's cramp. But what started as an occasional feeling of "pins and needles" in the fingers is now a cramped condition in which the fingers curl into the palm involuntarily. In the past six months, the trouble has become so bad that Fleisher, now 42, can barely sign his name...