Word: chair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drawling Tarheel who used to play football. Thirteen years ago osteomyelitis (bone infetion) cut his spinal cord and paralyzed him from the waist down. That put him on his back, but not out of circulation. He got through high school and the University of North Carolina in a wheel chair, went on to law school, two years ago married his nurse...
...other exercises to strengthen arms, shoulders and abdominal muscles, he was ready to begin crutch work. To walk, he had to learn to swing his body by gravity, like a pendulum. But learning to walk is only part of it. For a paraplegic, getting in & out of a chair or opening a door is a major undertaking, made up of many intricate, precisely timed movements which take weeks to learn...
...late to do anything about the cover which incongruously showed a picnic scene (New Yorker covers are made up four months in advance). But one editor suddenly thought: "My God, how would a guy feel, buying the magazine intending to sit in a barber's chair and read it!" Ross ordered a white band around the 40,000 New York newsstand copies, warning readers that there was nothing inside but Hiroshima...
...their fares with railroad fares and come to the conclusion that air travel is cheaper. ... In comparing fares [they] always add in the cost of a Pullman lower berth. A comparison of a seat in a plane and a berth on the train is the same as comparing a chair with...
...dentist strapped Sidney Joseph Perelman into the chair with six towels and forced his jaws apart with a blunt instrument. "Now then, where are his X rays?" he asked the nurse. "We haven't any," she said. "This is the first time he's been here." "Well, bring me any X rays," barked the dentist; "when you've seen one tooth you've seen them...