Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Muscular and robust as it is, the heart is less tolerant of foreign materials. Washington Surgeon Charles Hufnagel overcame this intolerance in 1952, when he implanted the first artificial aortic valves, made of a Plexiglas ball in a Plexiglas sleeve. The ball has since been replaced by Silastic...
...when New York's Jacques Plante tried to block one of Hull's slap shots with his gloved hand, it numbed his arm all the way to the elbow. The research institute concluded that Hull (at 5 ft. 10½ in.. 194 Ibs.) is a "perfect muscular mesomorph"-which is more or less what his opponents have been saying all along. "Somebody ought to put hobbles on him," growls Detroit's Gordie Howe...
...large vein). Then it had ''flowed" in the blood stream along the transverse sinus, down the main jugular vein and superior vena cava, into the right auricle (upper chamber) of the heart and through the tricuspid valve into the right ventricle. Thanks to the heart's muscular contractions, the fragment had worked halfway through the heart wall. If it had gone all the way, Kelley, who was ready to go home last week, would probably have died-just as if he had been shot in the heart in the first place. As it is, he will...
...mark held by New Zealand's Murray Halberg, who trailed Clarke through the tape by 150 yds. Peter Snell failed in his attempt to break his own world record for the mile (3 min. 54.1 sec.), still clocked 3 min. 57.6 sec.-the eleventh time the muscular New Zealander has cracked...
...hold the current lead. Hundreds of times a week its "White Tornado" whirls like a dervish across the nation's TV screens, and its "White Knight" charges about banishing dirt miraculously with a touch of his trusty lance. Colgate also has an Action "Giant" who reaches a muscular arm right out of the washing machine before awestruck housewives, most of whom are blissfully unaware of the Freudian predilections of Madison Avenue...