Word: equilibriums
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Died. Dr. Theron W. Kilmer, 74, child specialist, inventor of famed "Kilmer Test" for spotting drunken drivers by examining heart action, breathing, equilibrium and handwriting; of heart disease; in Rockville Centre...
Asked De Gaulle: "Who then can reestablish the equilibrium, if not the Old World, between the two new ones? Old Europe, which during so many centuries was the guide of the universe, is in a position to constitute, in the heart of a world that tends to divide itself into two, the necessary element of compensation and understanding...
...more relaxed and casual than Nine. His talents, creative and mechanical, assert themselves. His expanding community sense makes Ten receptive to ideas of social justice, group welfare, loyalty. Like Five, Ten is in good equilibrium. But unlike Five, Ten is no longer neuter. There is not much companionship between boys and girls of this age. Anticipating adolescence, they are acutely conscious of sex differences, keep apart by intermittent feuds and separatist truces...
...turns climbs or dives, the gyroscope tries to keep vibrating in the same plane. Its struggles register upon a knot of nerves at the base of the haltere, and tell the insect how it is doing in space. If both halteres are removed, the insect loses its sense of equilibrium, goes into a spin, crashes...
...news announcers pleaded with Parisians not to panic. "You are helpless in any case," they added. They begged listeners to remain calm "even if you see sudden flashes in the sky, hear claps of thunder; if the earth quakes, lights fail, electric motors stop and you sense . . . loss of equilibrium...