Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a clot has caused a stoppage in a coronary artery, the area of heart muscle fed by that artery dies, just as, for example, the tissue of a finger dies if cut off from its blood supply. The damage is permanent, and its severity depends greatly on the size of the affected artery and the speed and completeness of the occlusion. If the artery in which the clot forms is small enough, a person may live to old age unaware of the thrombosis. If the closing of the artery occurs slowly enough, nearby arteries may grow in size...
...Harvey talked, but last week Ronnie almost lived up to his stepfather's boasts. He got off a 55-yd. punt that dropped dead on the Aggie eleven. His team relaxed and began to play football. In the next series of Bruin plays, pitching with an index finger painfully injured in practice, Ronnie completed two beautiful passes. When Texas defenders dropped back to cover his receivers, he ran with the bruising drive of an authentic All-America...
...watch for such things as "readiness to leave parent," "participation in game situation," and the like. They were interested also in muscular coordination ("Unduly slow movements?"), behavior patterns ("Cheerful?" "Sullen?"), and test behavior ("Restless?" "Fidgets?"). There was talk, too, of "group activity." Explained one psychologist : "We played a finger game called 'Eensy Teensy Spider.' We watched their responses when we said, 'You are now walking like a duck or hopping like a bunny...
...like the picture he paints. Sure, she has a place to sleep and clothes to wear and food to eat, even a car of doubtful vintage to battle the rush hour traffic twice a day . . . But brother, she's earned them by the efforts of her own unpolished finger tips. Yeh, we're becoming a matriarchy, but little does this blind infant, Fischer, know what kind...
...quite an ordeal. "I used to eat six eggs and half a loaf of bread for breakfast," he wistfully recalled last week. "Sometimes a can of corned beef. But my big meal was dinner." And at parties and luaus, he really let go, consuming three bowls of two-finger poi and "everything else on the table": kalua pig, pork laulau (pork and salmon wrapped in taro leaves), pulehu aku (dried fish), lomi (salmon, raw, with tomatoes and chopped onion), chicken luau, dried squid, raw fish and limu (chopped seaweed), baked breadfruit and baked taro, haupia (coconut pudding), all washed down...