Word: elasticized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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No one seems certain about the best way to treat tennis elbow. Some doctors recommend complete rest for the arm. Some players, influenced by folklore, wear copper bracelets and report beneficial effects-despite the scoffing of medical scientists. A few doctors and many tennis pros suggest a more practical remedy...
And in his breathing there is what he calls a "mental inspiration of thought contained in the elastic of a breath":
Any CRR referendum today is predestined to failure because most students make simple assumptions about student discipline which are antithetical to the current structure of the CRR. Students feel that the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities is too "elastic" and therefore unjust; and while most have never seen, much less...
> Each year almost 100,000 U.S. hospital patients die of pulmonary embolisms-blood clots that generally form in the leg veins and travel to points where they block arteries leading to the lungs. Many of these deaths probably could be prevented. The patients may be immobilized because of minor surgery...
In seeking to convey this sense, Wills succeeds brilliantly. Wills's failing is a kind endemic to the journalist who think well and thinks a lot. Wills's style, like Norman Mailer's is that of the elastic bag. He can go from profound talk about the Vatican doctrine on...