Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...teeth," said Ford, "and I think in a couple of days I'll shave." The operation, said Dr. Cooley, was a success. "The removal of these nerves permits blood to flow through collateral channels to supply the muscles of the arm itself, and causes no interference with muscular power or sensation...
...medieval mystics, he strove to pattern his life after Christ's, an ambition that some Swedish critics of Markings chose to interpret as blasphemy or egomania; yet if Markings makes anything clear, it is that Hammarskjöld was a truly humble man: "How far from both muscular heroism and from the soulfully tragic spirit of unselfishness, which unctuously adds its little offering to the spongecake at a kaffeeklatsch, is the plain and simple fact that a man has given himself completely to something he finds worth living...
...insolent St. James Street shopkeeper who sneered at every customer up to and including the Iron Duke himself; Colonel Kelly of the First Foot Guards, a grand dandy so proud of his precious, gleaming boots that he burned to death trying to save them from a fire; and muscular Dan Mackinnon, who "used to amuse his friends by creeping over the furniture like a monkey." In Lisbon with Lord Byron, Mackinnon spied two nude Portuguese beauties at their morning ablutions across from his hotel, but he was horrified to see that they used no toothbrushes. He sent them some...
...ready for birth with a routine of exercise. He taught his patients chest breathing to prepare them for the time when their abdominal muscles would help expel the baby from the uterus. He schooled his patients in effleurage, a simple massage of the lower abdomen that serves to lessen muscular tension during contractions. Most important, Lamaze taught women to relax while participating actively in labor...
...League. The Yankees were disappearing all right-in third place, six games behind. All the kicking and gouging was going on between Chicago and Baltimore, two teams the experts figured to get their World Series loot courtesy of the commissioner's office. But Hank Bauer's surprisingly muscular Orioles had been giving the league fits all season. Now surprise again. Halfway through the week, Al Lopez' White Sox were in first place-one-half game ahead going into an eight-game home-and-home series with the Orioles...