Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist hands so far. One I.V.S.er, Peter Hunting, 24, was murdered from ambush by the Viet Cong in 1965. Another, Fred Cheydleur, 20, a Quaker from Philadelphia, was gunned down last week by Red guerrillas in the Laotian jungle. An expert logger, stonemason and mechanic, Cheydleur was a muscular (5 ft. 11 in., 195 lbs.), compulsively hard-working youth who became a pacifist, according to one of his teachers, "when he discovered his own ability to hurt other boys all too easily." Said Radio Moscow of Cheydleur's death: "An agent of the American CIA has been executed...
...periodically unfortunate intonation of the orchestra, occasional four-squareness, and general loss of intensity and concentration toward the end were somewhat disappointing. None of these faults, however, was outstanding enough to weaken the overall effect of the performance. This was a young Requiem-powerful, muscular, intelligent, lyric. In marble St. Paul's the result was overwhelming. Those who did not hear this particular Requiem are not likely to hear its kind in the near future, even on the best of stereo systems...
...both parents carry the abnormal gene, and it is proved by the birth of one child with cystic fibrosis, there is a one-in-four risk that any subsequent child will also be afflicted. Other diseases in the bad-risk group: some forms of mental retardation, deafness, muscular dystrophy and hemophilia-like bleeding disorders. The counselor's advice to parents with one child suffering from these has to be: if you want more children, adopt them...
...will try to take all the marbles in this hot Ivy League race against a tough, muscular Tiger squad which has been keying on this game as much...
...theory is that the muscular action of swallowing will automatically close Lopata's new pharyngeal valve; he will continue to inhale through the silver tube, but when he exhales, the air will go past the closed tube and activate the valve at the top of the windpipe. This will serve as a substitute voice box, and Dr. Montgomery is confident that Lopata's speech will be superior to a "burp...