Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stretching exercises on awakening. He does pushaways, knee bends and chinning on an old fig tree in his yard, jogs around a small course that he has laid out from fig to apricot to pear-tree stump (about 100 yards at a time). He cuts his lawn with a hand mower, rakes his own leaves. His blood pressure is 135 over 90. The systolic reading is low for any man over 65; the diastolic is near the upper limit of normal-except that there are so few records of men in their 90's that normal is ill-defined...
...examines patients six days a week at the famed Joslin Clinic, gets a big extra dividend from continuing practice because no other man has studied diabetes, or the same patients, for so long. Retired in Florida after 57 years of practice, Dr. Charles Ward Crampton, 81, still keeps his hand in as a consultant to the Geriatric Institute at the University of Miami's School of Medicine and its associated Jackson Memorial Hospital. Says Dr. Crampton sagely: "If a man has sense enough to realize that in many different ways he is not what he was ten years...
...Schoendienst lined a drive toward left. Elston Howard took off with the crack of the bat, ran straight into the murderous glare that makes left field at Yankee Stadium the toughest sun field in the major leagues. Diving to his knees, Howard sprawled forward, stuck out his gloved hand, and came up with the ball that had looked like a sure base hit. Howard scrambled to his feet, gunned a strike to first base to double a surprised Bill Bruton, who had confidently rounded second before he recognized his mistake...
...since 1925, when Pittsburgh did it to Washington, had a team come off the floor to win after losing three of the first four series games. Post-mortem accolades went to the Yankees' burly Turley, who had a hand in every one of the last three-in-a-row victories-winning one singlehanded, getting the last out in another, saving the final game with a spectacular 6| innings of two-hit relief pitching. Hard-bitten Rightfielder Hank Bauer led the Yankees at bat with a .323 average and four home runs. But the man Milwaukee will remember most vividly...
...protege) chose the sky as his province, Dove made the earth and sea his domain. To get closer to both, he moved out of Manhattan, where he had been a successful illustrator, and bought a farm in Westport, Conn., began raising chickens. When that venture failed, he tried his hand at being a lobsterman. Art, he decided, should not depend so much on natural forms as on substituting equivalent images for them. He was searching for a means of expression that would not depend on representation, that "should have order, size, intensity, spirit, nearer to the music...