Word: ataxia
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...travelled on a bus and believe the "Fugitive Lovers" gives an authentic picture of one, you may rush to the nearest bus station and start for the coast. Irrelevant as the following remark may be, we feel duty bound to warn you that biliousness, depression, and not infrequently locomotor ataxia result from one ride on these floundering monsters. But this film tries to make one believe that adventure and romance breed on buses. If you desire fantasy, "Fugitive Lovers" is pleasant enough...
...Lancet, British medical weekly, Dr. Percival Macleod Yearsley declared that William Shakespeare's death at 52 resulted from a complication of fever, typhus, typhoid paralysis, epilepsy, apoplexy, arteriosclerosis, excessive smoking, chronic alcoholism, gluttony, angina pectoris, Bright's disease, pulmonary congestion, locomotor ataxia...
...wife's death. In the village cemetery Malory stops by his wife's grave, then goes on to Nightingale's lonely mansion by the sea. But he finds his enemy too late: Nightingale is a cripple, cramped in a wheelchair, dying fast of arthritis and locomotor ataxia. Instead of killing Nightingale Malory sits and talks to him, listens to him talk. The sick man makes an apologia, but no apology, for his life...
...shaped head last year. Harvard's defeat of Brown at that time came as tidbit for those who prefer the deft to the desperate in sport, and who think that a lateral followed by a snap pass into the flat zone is a more beautiful thing than the temporary ataxia of the left side of the opposing line...
...pneumonia and influenza when it was noticed that men working in the army laboratory where there was a trace of chlorine in the air seemed immune from the prevalent epidemic of those diseases. Lewisite has been used in direct experiment with good results upon persons inflicted with locomotor ataxia. The much abused guinea pig was cured of a severe attack of tuberculosis by inhaling a very small quantity of the burning mustard...