Word: elbowing
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...handshake becomes an ordeal. Turning a doorknob sends twinges of pain through the forearm. Swinging a racket at a tennis ball-especially if the ball hits off center-causes a sensation that some players compare with being hit in the elbow by a hammer. These are all symptoms of an ailment that has long been familiar to doctors and athletes but is now becoming epidemic in America: tennis elbow...
During their pioneering mission, Astronauts Charles ("Pete") Conrad Jr., Paul J. Weitz and Joseph P. Kerwin will not lack for elbow room or equipment. In addition to their Apollo command ship, which will remain docked with Skylab, there are four major sections of the cluster: 1) the 22-ft.-wide Orbital Workshop, which contains the astronauts' main living and working quarters; 2) the smaller Multiple Docking Adaptor, which serves as part of the passageway between the Orbital Workshop and the Apollo command ship and contains the complex control panel for Skylab's telescope; 3) the Apollo Telescope Mount...
...statement that during these years the fourth floor of the IAB became a haven for weekend-knitters and others who sought the comforts of lightly soothing entertainment. All of the "ugly" elements of "professionalism" were absent; the shoving, crowded masses of basketball fans who spit, scream, swear, and elbow their team on to victory rarely climbed the four flights of stairs more than once...
Perhaps not, but Georgia Congressman John Davis, a leading Democratic member of the House Science and Aeronautics Committee, shares the concern of scientists that "they are no longer represented at the President's elbow." Other critics predict a more immediate problem: a potential conflict between Stever's job as director of the federally funded N.S.F. and his new post as science adviser, in which he will give advice on the allocation of federal funds to scientifically oriented agencies...
...Donald E. Johnson said that the plan would lower payments for disability ratings held less than 20 years. Thus a Viet Nam veteran with a leg amputated at the hip would have his monthly compensation reduced from about $375 to $200; a veteran who lost his arm below the elbow would receive about $175 instead of $310. Congress, of course, is already preparing to fight the cut if the Administration really presses it, which seems unlikely...