Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then this black guy came out and started jumping an dancing and whipping the microphone cord around all over the stage. This, the ponderous yellow-jacketed m.c. announced, was O.B. McClinton...
...apparent smoothness of the latest succession was deceptive. In 1972 Spencer Kimball had open-heart surgery; 15 years before that an operation for throat cancer left him with only a part of a vocal cord. Although he arrived at the decisive meeting of the twelve with a doctor's certification that he was in good health, many Mormons were naturally concerned about Kimball's longevity. Some even would have liked to use his health as an excuse to change the line of succession. The real reason: their fear of the accession to the presidency of Ezra Taft Benson...
Growing out of the spinal cord like the crown of a tree out of its trunk, the brain has several major components (see diagram page 52). The limbic system, an area that surrounds the head of the brain stem and includes such structures as the amygdala, part of the thalamus, hypothalamus and hippocampus, regulates the emotions. The pituitary, which hangs down from the brain stem like an olive from the tree, produces the hormones that influence growth and development. The cerebellum, a fist-sized structure at the rear of the brain that controls movements and coordination, enables man to touch...
Died. Errett Lobban Cord, 79, who built the streamlined, low-slung, coffin-nosed Cord automobile of the 1930s; of a heart attack; in Reno. After selling cars in Chicago, Cord became president of the failing Auburn Automobile...
...Eventually it became a part of the Cord Corp. and turned out cars that were far ahead of their time, highly stylized, with front-wheel drive, supercharged engine, bucket seats and tuckaway headlights. In 1937, trouble with the SEC forced Cord to sell his holdings, which by then included aircraft companies and a shipbuilding concern, for $2.6 million. In the same year, manufacture of the Cord-a high-priced ($3,000) car in the Depression era-was discontinued. Cord moved to Nevada two years later; in the '50s he became a state senator and a major force in local...