Word: humped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like those used in contraceptives such as Enovid, for women aged roughly from 40 to 50. What about those who live much longer? They are no longer in hormonal imbalance, he replied, but many of them suffer from hormonal deficiency states. These produce such symptoms as "dowager's hump," excessive wrinkles, and osteoporosis (brittle bones). "If a woman has these symptoms," Dr. Kistner declared, "she should get estrogens, not every day, but in cycles. Or on the off chance that these might encourage cancer, she could have combinations, such as Enovid...
...camel and its thirst-resistance are older than the Sphinx-and almost as durable. Well into the modern age of science, men accepted the notion that the evil-tempered animal could store a two-week supply of water in its humpor in a great, cistern-like stomach. The hump theory was the first to be discarded as so much humph. What the camel carries on its back is a reserve of fatty tissue to be consumed when the rest of the camel runs out of fuel. The story about the parched Bedouin who slaughtered his favorite camel to drink...
Barry, well aware of the enormous boost his candidacy had gotten, said confidently, "This just means that I have more delegates than I thought I did-maybe 690, something along in there. But I'd like a few more; then I'd say I was over the hump." Later Goldwater was even more confident. "Scranton just hadn't been moving," he said. "He needed a big break, and the only state where he could possibly get it would be Illinois. We had expected to get 40 of those delegates. We got 48. Three others we know...
...race relations. In the South, Negros and whites share a religion and a culture--they've been there together for 14 generations. In the North, on the other hand, there's no unity; whites are afraid of the Negroes. We used to think that once we got over the hump of legal segregation...
...including the building up of the Army from eleven flabby divisions to 16 combat-ready units. Second, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's cost-reduction program is expected to trim hundreds of millions from the next budget. Finally, as one Pentagon official put it, "we are over the hump in the funding of the large missile systems...