Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children, the skin frequently shows wheals if stroked repeatedly in the same spot, but this sensitivity usually wears off. Among adults, dermographia may occur in either sex and show up as redness and swelling around the belt or girdle line, or under shoulder straps or suspenders. Antihistamines are generally effective in controlling the reaction, say the Little Rock doctors...
...Long cuts were made on my ankles so the doctors could insert needles into larger veins than they could find in my arms ... At times I would have convulsions, and there would be other times when I would lie for days in a coma . . . My father gave several direct-line transfusions to me before he had to stop because he couldn't stand to lose more blood. Then he had to go searching for blood donors again...
...second law: An unbalanced force acting on a body makes it accelerate in the direction of the force . . . When the engine burns out, the rocket continues upward under the control of Newton's first law: . . . A body in motion continues to move at constant speed in a straight line unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. As it rises, it slows and curves because an unbalanced force, the earth's gravitation, keeps pulling at it in obedience to Newton's law of gravity: Each particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force that is directly...
...m.p.h. will reach the boundary, about 34,000 miles short of the moon, where the moon's pull is as strong as the earth's. If it reaches this point with a small velocity, it will fall on the moon. If it crosses the line at good speed, it will shoot past the moon, its course merely deflected. This is what happened to the Lunik...
...industry's big push is to warm the severe appearance of much modern furniture by mixing with it oriental lacquered furniture-lighter woods plus new materials and vivid fabrics. The industry is also bringing out a whole new line of "wall-hung" units-bookcases, hi-fi cabinets, cupboards, etc. Even children's furniture is being upgraded after 30 years of standard pink and blue finishes. Big Manhattan, Chicago and Detroit stores are laying in heavy stocks of specially designed children's furniture, scaled down in size from adult pieces...