Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night, left fallow until morning and then polished vehemently for maximum glitter. He fondly hopes that Marine officers will once more take to carrying swagger sticks, and in the field he is never without his own oversized version, a polished length of Haitian Coco-macaque wood. His hobbies are muscular: riding, spearfishing, fly-casting. A red-handled fly swatter reposes by his desk; few insects have profaned its orderly surface without becoming casualties of the U.S. Marine Corps...
With the onset of cooler weather, 1952's record-breaking polio epidemic was on the wane all across the country. Nevertheless, scattered here & there were hundreds of new cases that looked like poliomyelitis. Patients, mostly youngsters, who had headaches, fever, nausea, stiff neck or muscular difficulties were rushed to hospitals, and their cases were entered in the polio records. The truth was that many of the new patients did not have polio at all. There was good reason to believe that the season was producing an unusually large number of virus infections that only seemed to be polio...
...admission standards at Maryland and at Harvard are not alike. Maryland can take a high scorer with a low I.Q. and shunt him off to study physical education. At the College, athletes must tread the same rigorous academic road as their less muscular brethren. No one has ever qualified for entrance, much less a stipend, merely because of a broad back and a strong...
...given him chronic dyspepsia and affected his hearing, but he discovered a powerful voice, tuneless, yet penetrating enough, as he himself said, "to peel the bark off a gum tree," or "galvanize ten dead bullocks to a trot." A gnomelike figure (5 ft. tall, under 100 lbs.), among the muscular wharf lumpers he was said to be "too deaf to listen to reason, too loud to be ignored, and too small to hit." He was soon representing the waterfront in the New South Wales Parliament...
...clinching touchdown--at 0:38 of the last period--resulted from a one-yard leap by Culver to climax a drive from midfield. The muscular fullback gained 65 yards in 15 plays, and earned the opposition's praise and respect while doing...