Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hemorrhoids are nothing but varicose veins in the anal region. They result from greatly increased pressure in the anal veins during the muscular contractions of defecation, when portions of a vein break through the skin or other tissues that normally confine them. Famed Harvard Surgeon Francis D. Moore (TIME cover, May 3, 1963) notes in the textbook Surgery: "In a sophisticated population, sensitive to their own complaints and careful of personal hygiene, one rarely sees the tremendously advanced hemorrhoids that are common in a more careless social stratum." But a woman is liable to develop hemorrhoids during pregnancy because...
...been traced to impacted wisdom teeth is virtually endless. At one time or another, New York University's Dr. Irving Salman told the Greater New York Dental Meeting last week, they have been accused of causing everything from facial deformity to infections, from cysts to neuralgia, nervous disorders, muscular twitching, melancholia, arthritis, impairment of vision-and even schizophrenia...
Necessities & Joys. How she fashioned the fluidly muscular style that made her the founding mother of modern dance "is one of the mysteries," says Leatherman, "but her approach to it is plainly visible in the technique itself. Many of its basic elements are centered in the pelvic and genital regions, and Martha's bluntness in teaching them shocks the innocent." She teaches her "virile gestures" at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in Manhattan, where housewives and movie stars glory in "the miracle of the foot." "One must be ruthless to teach," she says, and students have learned...
...incisional hernia such as the one from which President Johnson is now suffering is a rupture (Latin: hernia) or break in the muscular abdominal wallIn the President's case, the break came about an inch to the right of the scar where the surgeons cut last year to remove his gall bladder. It is at the point where plastic drain tubes were left in place for four days after that operation. Such hernias are by no means rare but no one knows exactly how common they...
...limited rate of acceleration, the new electric autos will probably be restricted to brief low-speed trips in metropolitan areas-where they are actually needed most to cut down on smog and street noise. For high-speed urban expressways and intercity highways, a Ford spokesman readily concedes, the more muscular internal-combustion engine "will be the most practical form of power for some time to come...