Word: lifter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Striking Glimpse. The sudden interest in earthwork at Boeing has hardly taken the company out of the skies. On the contrary, Boeing engineers are producing ever more spectacular aircraft designs, including one for a twelve-engine "brute lifter" three times the size of the 747 jet that could haul, for example, 8,000 bbl. of crude petroleum. Recent successes in aerospace sales accounted for almost all of the company's nine-month earnings of $18.2 million this year, up nearly $1,000,000 over the same period in 1970. But Boeing's new outlook may well provide...
...even want to be an actress." David refused to listen, and Sally's auditions eventually led to a couple of featured roles on television and a tiny part in Reform School Girl, "one of those American-International kind of movies where I played the weight lifter or something," she remembers. Next came a part in The Boston Strangler. "I put on a bunch of bruises and decided I wasn't going to worry any more. Once I did that, I said, 'All right, I'll take anything they'll give...
Sunday to Sunday. An ardent gymnast and weight lifter, Margaret nonetheless bristles at the suggestion that she is some kind of Amazon in sneakers. Shy and demure off court, she is a green-eyed blonde with a fondness for gourmet cooking and fashion design. Maggie grew up in Albury, New South Wales, playing tennis against the boys. At 15 she had collected so many trophies that her parents sent her off to train with Frank Sedgman in Melbourne. At 17 she became the youngest woman ever to win the Australian championship. Two years later she was ranked the world...
Natural Posers. "As a former weight lifter and as a specialist in cardiovascular disorders," Dr. William S. Breall of San Francisco writes to the Journal editors: "I would like to note a few other possible dangers." First of all, Breall says, a weight lifter should learn to breathe properly, or he may fall in a faint, damage his lungs or suffer a hernia in the groin or the diaphragm. Taking issue with those who dismiss high blood pressure as a hazard, Breall draws attention to the danger of "weight lifter's hypertension." A man performing "severe isometrics," he explains...
Breall urges that doctors make sure a weight lifter's blood pressure is not continuously at an abnormally high level. If it is, he says, the patient should be forbidden to do any weight lifting. Other physicians agree with Breall and suggest that anyone with a tendency to high blood pressure should refrain from any form of isometrics, or static exercise, and consider instead such rhythmic exercises as swimming or jogging, which are preferable for the heart and circulatory system...