Word: heart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right from the start, the British press had known in its heart of hearts that little solidly detailed news could be expected from President Eisenhower's private, informal talks with Prime Minister Macmillan. Touring Europe to sound out old allies on the eve of this month's visit from Russia's Khrushchev, Eisenhower was hardly likely to spread out his cards to please newsmen-and let the Russians count the pips. Even so, British newsmen built up tall hopes for high headlines. And when they were disappointed, they turned with fury on the handiest fall guy: Presidential...
...Chicago in connection with the Third Pan-American Games. But how much exercise is best? What kind? At what time of life? To these key questions there were no sharp answers, because medical science knows surprisingly little about the specific effects of different types of exercise on the human heart. As the experts puffed toward the finish line, they reached a consensus on some preliminary findings. ¶Athlete's heart" is an unfortunate term that should be discarded, because it indicates a diseased state that does not exist, said New York University's Dr. Louis F. Bishop. Also...
...Neither adults nor children can damage th,eir hearts by exercise if they are healthy to begin with. Dr. Joseph B. Wolffe of Valley Forge Hospital said that the muscles in a normal person's limbs will give out, leaving him unable to move, before he can strain the more powerful heart muscle. Some of the rare cases of collapse and sudden death during exercise may be due to exhaustion of blood sugar rather than heart damage.¶ Exercise helps to guard against obvious obesity (a proved life-shortener), said Boston's bicycle-riding Paul Dudley White...
...Conant's most potent prescriptions was the "academic inventory." a yearly comparison between bright students' capacities and the elective courses they actually choose. Like a stockholder's report, it sums up a school's income and outgo. And it goes straight to the heart of the matter: guidance...
Next day the four volumes of the Pope's breviary arrived, with the markers where the Pope had finished his office on the feast of the Sacred Heart, and containing John's family memorial cards, including one for his father. On the cover of the black volumes were the arms of the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice: the breviary was bought...