Word: elbowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delegates with a virtuoso display of his handshaking techniques. Those techniques are really a modern marvel-Lyndon is equally adept at shaking two people's hands at the same time, or shaking one person's hand with both of his, or shaking a hand while patting an elbow or a shoulder, or using the handshake to hurry someone past him in the reception line. After viewing the performance on television, New York Times TV Critic Jack Gould quipped: "The President can only be described as the Y. A. Tittle of handshakers; he does not let go until...
...Kennedy's car in Dallas, but there was no way for him to scramble back to the President's aid in time. Kennedy himself had always objected to agents flanking him closely (particularly when campaigning), and by his own order there was no agent at his elbow in Dallas...
Wires up the Sleeve. Most artificial limbs use the mechanical power of the stump muscles to actuate parts of the hand. But all body movements are controlled from the brain by electrical impulses that pass along the nerves to work the muscles. After an amputation, especially below the elbow, the nerve-muscle system still works as far as the stump of the limb. With this in mind, Moscow Scientists A. E. Kobrinsky and V. S. Gurfinkel decided to use these muscular contractions to make electric currents. In effect, they set about reversing nature's process. The resulting currents...
...Russian model that Yesalis saw, a hard leather cylinder attaches the artificial hand and forearm to the patient's upper arm. The plastic strap secured to the stump below the elbow contains two electrodes, each attached to two wires that proceed up the sleeve of coat or dress in a single cable. They lead to a transistorized power pack the size of a cigarette case, which may be worn under a man's shirt or a woman's blouse. Another wire leads back from the power pack, down the arm, to the artificial hand. Inside this hand...
...Crimson kept the ball in Andover territory for most of the game, giving goalie Richard Hammond only six opportunities to block Andover scoring attempts. Hammond was out for the first three games with an injured elbow, but played a full game yesterday...