Word: bodyâ
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...belting out tunes to pay for schnapps and cigarettes. But as soon as she opens her mouth and begins strutting around the stage, the image?and some of the movie's credibility?goes happily haywire. Her liquid, throaty voice rises stylishly from a caress to pure, ringing brass. Her body???a broad-shouldered 5 ft. 5 in. with long showgirl legs?weaves a rhythm of its own even when she is standing still...
...leaked word that Secretary of State William Rogers had been privately warning delegates that a defeat on the China vote might endanger the $200 million a year that Washington contributes to the U.N. Arm-twisting is part of the game at the U.N.?and every other parliamentary body???but it is supposed to be done with subtlety...
This is a salon for the whole body???and the whole day. The exercise room, carpeted in gold and orange, has 25 California ladies lying in it, most of them gray and hefty, in variegated pastel tights, slowly moving their limbs through the air in time with an instructress...
Last week, still limping from a broken leg, Joseph Patrick Kennedy had to leave his pleasant home and his big family to journey to Washington, no summer resort. There the chairman of the SEC was to deliver a long-awaited speech on the policies of his potent body???a speech which would be an authoritative definition of the Administration's attitude toward the financial community...
...endocrine gland the size of a big pea, located underneath the cerebrum and on about a line with the bridge of the nose. Formerly medicos supposed that it secreted the mucus of the nose. (In Latin pituita means phlegm.) Actually it controls the growth of the bones of body???those of the arms and legs. When it is pathologically oversize, it makes giants of the diseased persons; when undersize it dwarfs them. Irritated temporarily by springtime disease, it, in good theory, makes the sick child grow like a weed...