Word: dwarfism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year after year. His parents would joke and bluff their way through the painful moment. "Maybe next year, champ!" Later in the night they would cry themselves to sleep together. Their son's wish, like that of more than 50,000 other Americans who suffer from some form of dwarfism, had long been ungrantable...
Garakani bluntly explained the Ilizarov bone-stretching surgical procedure, developed in the Soviet Union to correct dwarfism, which Dr. Victor Frankel, president and head of orthopedic surgery at Manhattan's Hospital for Joint Diseases, intended to introduce into the U. S. The shin, thigh and upper-arm bones would be cut clear through, leaving only the bone cavity and the marrow intact. A special frame, with steel pins going through the bone on each side of the cut, would keep the pieces in line and allow them to be pulled apart a millimeter a day. New bone would form...
Presidential politics is afflicted with political dwarfism. The Democrats started out the year with seven dwarfs. Now there is one. Republicans say many things about George Bush. That he is a political giant is not one of them...
Presidential dwarfism, however, is not a recent condition. When F.D.R. ran for President in 1932, Walter Lippmann described him as a "highly impressionable person without a firm grasp of public affairs...
...year when biotechnology begins to live up to its vaunted potential. A number of new products are working their way through the arduous testing process. Some of the most promising substances that researchers hope will soon reach the market: a human growth hormone that combats dwarfism, a protein that may stop heart attacks in progress, substances that diagnose sexually transmitted diseases like herpes, drugs for treating AIDS, and a form of interferon that can be used on several types of cancer...