Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...body measurements and physical condition of all men who graduated from the College between 1880 and 1920, and between 1943 and 1949, will be studied to test the theory that stocky, muscular people are more susceptible to cardiovascular disease than persons of other body builds...
...predicted that they would "scrape his remnants off the wall with a spoon." Not if Siegert could help it. For his team, he recruited two Munich friends with whom he had escaped from East Germany seven years ago: a lightning-rod fitter named Rainer Kauschke, 24, and a tough, muscular carpenter named Gerd Uner, 22. Taking unpaid leaves from their jobs, the three each chipped in $1,000 for food and medical supplies, down-lined clothes, lightweight nylon ropes and 1,000 special pitons, designed by Kauschke. On the sheer slate and limestone of the "elevator," Siegert knew they would...
...well-established physiological dominance of the left hemisphere of the brain had been transferred through training to the contralateral side, rendering possible the execution of an exceptionally differentiated performance of great complexity that involved maximal demands upon mental acuity as well as visual and muscular skill...
Back in the years when most Americans were manual workers, they needed lots of fat for muscle fuel. So farmers encouraged their hogs to get as obese as circus fat ladies. But times have changed. Most modern Americans make little muscular effort, and hog fat is high on the list of dietary enemies. Farmers feed their hogs carefully to keep them from producing too much lard, fat back and sowbelly...
George Frazier is a man of muscular opinions. To him, Harry Belafonte is "America's number one slave"; Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett is a "son of a bitch"; Roger Maris is a "fink" and Mickey Mantle is an "unfrocked fink." In Frazier's considered judgment, "all hockey players are crazy," all Texans are "a little ridiculous," and Brooks Brothers "is like a giant class reunion...