Morgan, a former European junior champion, was as surprised as anyone by his triumph, particularly as he has been struggling with a heel injury of late.
There, as a schoolboy, he had encountered a sign that featured a shoe with a spiky heel in the middle of a red circle with a diagonal slash.
Each joint was crowned with a little gray stone of skin, and each heel was like the battered end of a club.
It looks as if MPs have started the process of bringing their expenses watchdog, Ipsa, to heel - after a bout of brinkmanship between its critics and the Government whips, last night.
With incremental execution, the dance's signature flipped-up-and-back flexed-leg-and-foot pose looked less like a kicked up heel than a pretty and preened piece of plumage.
Kelly Sotherton cannot compete in the pentathlon because of a heel injury.
Arena woes are often the Achilles heel of a sports franchise.
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Right now, competing in the junior 10m hopscotch championships for the Athens bronze medallist would be a blessing, given the size of the crutch she's been hobbling around on for the last four days because of a heel injury.
Theo Walcott, a substitute, blasted in an equalizer with his first touch since coming on and then crossed for Danny Welbeck, the striker, to score one of the goals of the tournament, a twisting back-heel flick into the corner of the goal.
For all Genzyme's stability, its gene therapy research might represent a kind of Achilles' heel.
There is not much to the village now: a few boarded-up houses, a couple of shops, a down-at-heel courthouse.
But giving up the transformative lift of a very high heel can be difficult.
Still, Mr. Louboutin occasionally takes it to the edge: His "Fetish Ballerine" of 2007 has a heel so high, about 10 inches, that it turns a black pump into a pointe shoe.
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Half the cuddled babies did not show any facial expression of pain when undergoing a heel prick test.
But while the simple requirement of a physical DVD is an impediment to casual downloaders of illegal content, that physical format has also left consoles with an Achilles heel that has been getting a lot of attention in the press these days: used games.
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Joe Johnson, who scored 20 points against Philadelphia on Monday, missed his fourth game of the season with a bruised left heel.
It is apparent that the best way to take a chunk out of cybercrime is attacking its Achilles heel: going after the cash flow itself.
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Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs and Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Jason Peters are both expected to miss a lot of time next season due to Achilles heel injuries.
He was ruled out for the third time in four games after an exam Thursday of his strained heel also revealed a plantar fascia tear in his right foot.
Peters, on the other hand, will be spending some of his new free time suing the makers of Roll-A-Bout, an item he blames for the re-injury of his Achilles heel.
The heel can now be modeled as a simple cantilever beam of circular cross section.
That's because, one way or another, they all go to the Achilles heel of the UK economy: "A failure to achieve stable planning, strategic vision and a political consensus on the right policy framework to support growth".
But their Achilles heel this season has been the absence of a sustained cutting edge up front, and so it proved again as Jermaine Beckford struggled to impose himself on a Blues defence missing ineligible new signing David Luiz.
It seems like Scholastic did a pretty good job of avoiding nexus, but the Achilles heel of the system was the teachers.
Spine, horn and claw become heel, last and vamp, a frightening yet beautiful evocation of the primordial soup from whence we came.
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On the foot, the first sensation of a Bemer shoe is the solid balance between heel and ball--and this in a ready-to-wear model.
German surgeon Michael Haake, who led the BMJ study, argues that the apparent benefits of the heel procedure are nothing more than a placebo effect.
In fact, the Achilles heel of any attempt to increase energy prices to a point necessary to alter consumer behavior is that this is exactly the type of policy that will face serious political opposition, and probably demise, every time.
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Even a low heel gives your legs more shape and helps avoid any hint of frumpy.
Joe Johnson missed his third straight game with a sore left heel after going through warm-ups with the hope of coming back.
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