Word: musclebound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than a sense of competition ("For me the question was not whether it could be done, but whether I could do it"), he undertook a 1,100-mile hike from one end of Britain to the other. In the course of it, he managed to be fogbound on Dartmoor, musclebound in Bristol and sodden in Somerset. He was rained upon almost everywhere (though not, oddly, at a place in Scotland called Hill of Drip), making clear why one of the few Gaelic words he picked up en route was fliuch. It is pronounced, he says, "floo-chh" and it means...
Three years ago they'd come out ready to teach the hospitals how to run things. Now they are a little more worried about whether they can handle it. Fortunately, they also bring lots of energy and imagination. They are not musclebound with knowledge, and as a result they bring iniative; they do things with the children, for example, that are perfectly marvelous and that the professional staff is too old, and too tired, and too beaten down by the system, even to try. Similarly, with the adults, case-aides can invest in an individual in a situation where normally...
...first official New York G.O.P. function that Nixon has attended since moving there four years ago from California. While Rockefeller and New York Mayor John Lindsay listened with fixed smiles, Nixon warmly endorsed Javits for re-election next year. Ironically, the potentially most powerful bloc in the G.O.P. is musclebound. Twenty-four of the nation's 26 Republican Governors, ending a conference in Palm Beach last week, failed to unite behind any one candidate-although as many as 15 or 20 of them favor Rockefeller...
...Ryun, the University of Kansas sophomore who last year lowered the record to 3 min. 51.3 sec., runs at least twelve miles a day, lifts weights to increase lung capacity and competes against sprinters in relays to sharpen his speed. No longer do athletes worry about becoming musclebound, says Chemical Engineer George P. Meade in Athletic Records: The Whys and Wherefores. They no longer fear that exertion may damage their hearts; it undoubtedly strengthens them. Quite possibly, says Meade, "the current upsurge of record breaking owes its incidence to adoption of body-building training methods more than to any other...
Extricated Friends. The most notorious of this greedy breed is a musclebound ex-butcher nicknamed Der Dicke (Fat Boy). A former black marketeer with many contacts in East Berlin, he got into the tunnel business for almost altruistic reasons-he wanted to help East Berlin friends to escape. While making inquiries about tools and equipment, Der Dicke made the happy discovery that hundreds of West Berlin university students were eager to help him for nothing. On his very first try, he lined up three engineering students who also had friends wishing to escape to the West. Once they had broken...