Word: humps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact by falling into the posture known as "secretarial slump." The droopy area must instead be frankly and firmly put to rights, not only by "corrective exercises" at home but "on-the-job grooming" during office hours. Neglected or ignored, it will all result in "dowager's hump" as a matter of course, and while this more serious condition is not incorrigible, it is certainly in a graver category than mere slump. Indeed, the whole of Glamour Expert Lilly Dache's book is a warning to women readers not to let a single waking minute tick by without...
...then an obscure, 40-year-old U.S. infantry officer, found his crisis in Burma. Under command of General Joseph Stilwell, the Allies were set to drive across northern Burma to Myitkyina, key Japanese defense base and main air base from which fighters menaced the allied air route over "the Hump" to China. With a newly built road eastward from Ledo in northern India, they would intersect the Burma Road, reopen the land route to China...
...Luis, on thenorth coast of the Brazilian hump, for fuel...
...downstroke, which doctors call the "Q" wave, is formed as the ventricles begin to contract to pump blood out. The major part of the current flow is the high, thin upstroke of the "R" wave; the thin downstroke is simply return to the base line. Then follows the heavy, hump-shaped "T" wave that marks the repolarization of the muscle surface; some subjects also show a short dip called "S" (not pictured here) before...
Third Day. "The conference," said a British spokesman, "is over the hump." The ministers dined with Sir Winston Churchill and heard a powerful disquisition on his current obsession, defense against the H-bomb. Optimism was in the air. All that remained was to work out the details on how best to control German rearmament. Eden's plan was to settle some of these thorny questions in four-way talks between West Germany and the three occupying powers, leave the rest to committees of experts. But it didn't work out that...