Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board based its classification of Randall as a workman upon the nature of his duties. It defined one of them as "to quell disturbances, which requires muscular brawn...
...legs without bodies kicked in the air. In another picture, a wistful nude sat on an airy chair, minus her back and bottom. The effect was charming because the spectator's mind quickly filled in the missing portions, like the omitted words in a telegram. A pair of muscular legs and two busy hands easily became a ballerina bending over to put on her tights. Said Colin: "I paint the things I consider essential. To me, women are merely subjects. A nice female breast has no greater artistic value than a ripe tomato, and a woman's torso...
...recommendation. The companies decided that the principle is wrong because no two men age alike. Some men are young in spirit at 65 and well able to continue working; other men are old at 50. Actually, younger men are better only in physically exhausting jobs that require great muscular exertion. In more highly skilled jobs, such as tool & diemaking, skill increases with experience. Though older men lose some of their zip, they make up for it with their know-how, less waste, and greater dependability...
Seventeen-year-old Tom Lee is a quiet, sensitive "off horse" at a particularly muscular and conformist school; he lives, furthermore, under the roof of a particularly harsh and he-man housemaster. From a little acorn of gossip an ugly scandal soon spreads its entangling branches, with Tom defended only by his housemaster's beautiful, equally off-horse wife. Trying desperately to prove his normality by dating the town tramp, Tom only leaves it further in doubt; and it is the housemaster's wife herself, who at the florid final curtain, prepares to make...
Roland LaStarza, 26, a shifty boxer who went to college (C.C.N.Y.), had figured out, after a course of thoughtful study, just how he was going to beat Rocky Marciano to become heavyweight champion of the world. "I'm more muscular than Marciano, and I expect to move faster," he said. "I figure I can cut him up so that the referee will have to stop it!"* Rocky Marciano, 29, more of a cave than a college type, had less to say in advance. When the bell rang for the start of their 15-round experiment at the Polo Grounds...