Word: corded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quickly spread to all areas of the city, probably borne by the female Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito, a night biter that acquires the virus from birds (and possibly small animals and reptiles), which are thought by most experts to be the natural reservoirs of the disease. SLE attacks the spinal cord and the brain, destroying nerve cells and frequently damaging the small blood vessels that supply the brain...
...which infection spread. Thousands of recruits had meningococci in their throats, but did not get sick. There was no way to predict which few men would develop a life-threatening infection that would race through the bloodstream and attack their meninges-the covering of the brain and spinal cord...
...dresses, and the Canadians are making fiber glass igloos for north woods sportsmen. Automobile bodies, when runs are limited to 50,000 cars of a specialized model, can be made more economically using fiber glass instead of steel. Fiber glass makers hope eventually to replace steel or nylon cord in tires, and thereby take over a $400 million-a-year business. There are signs that fiber glass may even become a wonder worker: a desalinization technique is being tested in which sea water is run through an inexpensive membranous fiber glass pipe, which allows the fresh water to pass through...
Rigid but Sore-Free. It was sheer good fortune that the broken vertebrae were in the lumbar region and did not damage the end of the spinal cord-a far less serious situation than if they had been in the cervical or thoracic areas, where the cord might have been severed by dislocation of the bones. A break of any of the cervical vertebrae could have paralyzed Teddy's body from the neck down, while a fracture of any of the twelve thoracic vertebrae might well have paralyzed his trunk or legs...
When his father suffers a fatal stroke, Jonas Cord Jr. (George Peppard) rushes straight home from the factory to make a pass at daddy's flammable blonde wife, Carroll Baker. "You wouldn't dare!" she screams. But in a movie like this, a statement like that means let's dance. In no time at all, the lady appears in black chiffon to ask: "How d'ya like my widow's weeds?" As the girl eventually transformed into Rina Marlowe, a doomed Hollywood sex goddess, Actress Baker seems uncertain about which actress living or dead...