Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oldest bat and ball game in the world, court tennis originated in the monasteries of mediaeval France, and in America is confined to seven courts. It is played indoors on a wooden court similar in size to a lawn tennis court and the ball is played off the irregular, sloping walls which surround the court...
Among several case histories, Dr. Bontzolakis described a man of 57 who complained of dizziness, headaches and leg cramps. He had an enlarged heart with irregular beat, blood pressure of 250/130. Within six weeks, on reserpine, he improved (no headaches, less dizziness) and gave up abstractionism for expressionism. The doctor pushed the treatment: the heartbeat became regular, blood pressure dropped to 160/100, and the leg pain got better. The patient switched again-to primitivism. Dr. Bontzolakis was delighted. But two years later the man returned in worse shape than before, with blood pressure up again. What had happened...
...microphone attached to record vocal sounds, and fitted into the little compartment were assorted instruments to measure heartbeat rate, blood pressure, body temperature, breathing rate. During the first few minutes of flight, while the missile was accelerating under the thrust of its engines, telemetering devices reported slowed-down and irregular breathing, slightly speeded-up heartbeat. Then, during about eight minutes of weightlessness while the missile was in ballistic flight, breathing and heartbeat went back to normal, indicating that, for eight minutes at least, weightlessness causes no severe immediate physiological changes...
...decades of reform and development into two brief years, thereby built a wall of resentment. He presided over the election that put A.D.'s Rómulo Gallegos, a noted novelist, into the presidency in 1948. Reports that A.D. planned to de-emphasize army influence by arming an irregular band of stalwarts helped turn the military against it. In 1948 a coup by the resentful military sent Betancourt into exile once more...
...every day, they had better pay for it every day." The Heineman plan aims to turn the fair-weather riders into faithful, fulltime riders. To do it, the North Western more than doubled prices of one-way tickets for close-in riders, thus making it costly to be an irregular, close-in commuter. But it scaled down the increase so that there was no change in fares for far-out riders and little change in monthly tickets. Heineman promised a much faster ride for the extra money...