Word: defectiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...temperature. A group of Boston doctors reported recently in the New England Journal of Medicine that malignant hyperthermia can be brought under control by use of a heart-lung machine to cool the blood. But the condition can also be avoided by presurgical testing. Researchers have identified the genetic defect that causes the ailment and have devised a means of identifying victims: exposing a small sample of a patient's muscle tissue to halothane or other anesthetic drugs. If the defect is present, the muscle contracts abnormally. In families with a his tory of malignant hyperthermia, the complex test...
...their heels for hours in an anteroom attests to the fact that even the most well-intentioned men have been postponers ever. Quintus Fabius Maximus, one of the great Roman generals, was dubbed "Cunctator " (Delayer) for putting off battle until the last possible vinum break. Moses pleaded a speech defect to rationalize his reluctance to deliver Jehovah's edicts to Pharaoh. Hamlet, of course, raised procrastination to an art form...
...Frank and Harold Levinson of Downstate Medical Center report in the Journal of Child Psychiatry that primary dyslexia is caused by some as yet unexplained defect in the nerve pathways that connect the inner ear, which helps control balance, with the cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls coordination. The result of this defect, they claim, is a sort of permanent motion sickness that affects a child's balance and scrambles incoming visual signals. In fact, they say, 112 out of 115 New York City children known to have primary dyslexia were tested and found to be afflicted...
...scarcely match his gift for inspirational leadership. Partly as a result, his prediction has a hollow ring; the U.F.W.A. is fighting now to stay alive. Membership, which totaled 50,000 in California alone in 1971, is down to 10,000. Faced with the certainty that still more growers will defect to the rival International Brotherhood of Teamsters when their contracts with the farm workers' union expire this spring, Chavez last week intensified the latest nationwide boycott of non-U.F.W.A. California table grapes that began last year. The boycott also extends to non-U.F.W.A. iceberg lettuce...
...hurry to get them on film, to make the full balanced works of the European masters. But through it all there is a sense of such vitality and interest, a feeling of place and mood, an atmosphere of light and detail, that one can overlook so much of defect in the spirit of the whole...