Word: elasticize
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Later flights will be made by scientists skilled in scientific observation, but for the experimental and risky first flight, Space Surgeon Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955) wanted a young man with quick, trained reflexes and elastic endurance to cope with emergencies. "I didn't want much," says Stapp. "Just...
Catholicism is an elastic philosophy. It has managed to play ball with feudalism, capitalism, rightist dictatorship and now with leftist dictatorship. Just as Communism changes front, so does Catholicism change front.
Internal Tick. Skinny Arnie Sowell, the light-foot Pitt Negro with elastic legs, was back in his element, his disappointing summer outdoors and his heartbreaking failure at Melbourne now behind him. He hardly wasted a glance on last year's winner, halfback-sized Tom Courtney of Fordham. On the...
*Not to be confused with Shin Buddhism, a liberal, elastic sect which comprises most of the 60,000 Buddhists in the U.S., a majority of them West Coast Nisei.
Weightlessness is easy to achieve on earth, but only for short intervals. The simplest way is to jump off something, even a chair. While the jumper is in free fall, his body as a whole is pulled by the earth's gravitation, but the parts of his body feel...