Word: limps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality. Anderson combines an easy grin and mild manner with businesslike drive and savvy, has little time for the social circuit, plenty of time for such interests as the Boy Scouts. Stricken with polio at three, he still walks with a slight limp that keeps him out of active sports and kept him out of service in World War II. Uncomfortable about missing military service, he once said, holding a forefinger a quarter-inch above his desk top: "When it comes to measuring who has given up most for his country. I measure about this high...
When Marion Gleason was a busy housewife with four small children, she had an experience that leaves any mother limp: the maid who gave year-old Peter his morning tablespoonful of cod-liver oil picked up the wrong bottle one day, and the baby became violently ill. The bottle contained a strong disinfectant. Peter recovered (he is now, at 31, a radiologist). Last week, thanks largely to that experience, the name of his mother, Marion N. Gleason, appeared as senior author (although she has no degree in medicine or chemistry) over the names of two double-doctorate professors...
...that there must be no letting up in Algeria, and those who agreed with General de Bollardière that things cannot go on as they are, all France seemed to be caught in a dialogue without decision. In the circumstances. Premier Guy Mollet's government might limp on a few months more, for lack of an alternative, but, said Figaro, "the rot is setting...
...about four quarts a minute in a 150-lb. man). Say their critics: any pump run at such high speed may damage the blood cells. Another major disagreement involves stopping the heartbeat. With its major vessels shut down and their blood bypassed to the machine, the heart goes somewhat limp, but keeps on beating because it continues to receive some blood through minor channels. This can be a serious problem: the surgeon wielding his needle holder has to "take aim on a moving target." Moreover, stitches inserted while the heart muscle is tense may tear out. So surgeons...
...farmer, Northrup Knox, 28, of Buffalo, N.Y. and Aiken, S.C., demonstrated an almost tireless skill at the esoteric game of court tennis. After an afternoon's romp on the court at Boston's Tennis and Racquet Club, Knox left longtime (eight years) Champion Alastair Bradley Martin, 42, limp with exhaustion, won the U.S. amateur singles championship...