Lagarde helped to buckle the harness around his legs and waist.
"It makes you want to buckle the guy's knees or something," she said.
However, excessive rolling can buckle the plate causing rubbing of the plate against the work piece.
When he landed, his right leg did not buckle, the ground did not shake, time did not stand still.
The knees may buckle, the neck muscles may go slack, and in extreme cases the person may collapse to the floor completely paralyzed.
"If the track does buckle, the line must be closed and the track repaired before services can resume, causing considerable disruption.
When compressed from each end it causes each half of the strip to "buckle", the left half in one direction, the right half in the other direction.
But preliminary calculations suggest that long before they buckle, the trusses are likely to expand in the heat and bow the exterior columns perilously outward.
And families have taken on debt loads — for cars, for college tuition, for medical treatment — that would buckle the knees of the strongest pack animals.
