Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coward's impulse to step lightly around the tough issues and only ask the polite questions, while stifling those which clamor in mute repression for voice. It urges us against our penchant to accept the soundbite without listening to the sound. It urges us to turn the pointing finger inward and the embracing arm outward. It urges us to be watchful, to be waitful, to listen and to learn, to give some time to "pause" in a world that covets "passing...
...Pascarelli, medical director of New York City's Miller Institute at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, points out how very heavy people can get into trouble. For their hands to reach the keyboard, they have to maneuver their arms around their own girth, and wind up contorting their wrists inward. Double-jointedness can also be a risk factor. Smokers may have fewer injuries, thanks to their periodic breaks away from the terminal to satisfy nicotine cravings. And what goes on outside the office can be just as damaging as what happens in it. Observes Katy Keller, a physical therapist...
...town's adversities may actually have strengthened the student bonds. The farm economic crisis of the 1920s, followed by the Great Depression in the 1930s, pushed the people inward. World War II froze town development. Even after the war, Greenfield was ignored by superhighways and shopping malls. The kids manufactured their activities among themselves, mostly at high school. "We truly got to love each other," said Darlene Don Carlos Marshall...
...their coach will get upset." Word leaked out of the Olympic Village that the gymnasts were under strict regulations: no phone calls or leaving their rooms without permission, no unauthorized food. Small wonder that each gymnast performed her routine, looked anxiously to her personal coach for feedback, then turned inward to focus on the next event. In Olympics of old, the stony- faced Americans might have been mistaken for Soviets...
...expect another bubbly Mary Lou will be disappointed. "She makes me nervous when I watch her compete," says Retton, both a friend and mentor. "Kim doesn't show any kind of emotion." Instead, the 80-lb. Zmeskal wears a glassy stare and becomes intensely quiet, turning all her strengths inward...