Word: limpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royal Victoria Hospital. In the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Mathew H. Gault and Robert Usher report that, despite a difficult breech delivery, he seemed normal and healthy and began breathing spontaneously. But by the time he was taken to the nursery, he was pale and limp. The electrocardiogram was taken by happenstance: the hospital was making a study of heart action in prematures, and this baby seemed to have been about a month premature. The startling ECG finding alerted the doctors to the possibility of serious illness. When the baby turned blue, they gave oxygen. But the heart...
...prearranges the roses and from time to time winks wickedly at the audience. She plays both parts brilliantly in Bells, especially in the brief blackout that describes a disastrous blind date. In a rapid succession of hilarious Freudian slips, Judy bends the young man's cigarette to a limp parabola, splatters his drink on his lap, butts him with her head and finally, as she brushes by a blazing dish of crepes suzette, goes up in flames...
...mountains in chartered DC-3s and over its hills in Jeeps, dead tired, 15 Ibs. lighter than when he started, and with recurring eye trouble, Billy Graham wound up his seven-week "Safari for Souls" last week, still going at a pace that often left his followers limp. His only major difficulty was insomnia, and he remarked that he spent most of his sleepless hours in prayer: "I figure God had some reason for keeping me awake...