Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bones were missing, but the rest clearly belonged to a male approximately 5 ft. 8 in. tall, who had a large head, suffered from arthritis, and died between the ages of 55 and 60, "probably of 'heart failure.' The ruggedness of the remains," says Goff, "indicates a muscular, vigorous male." The man also limped, had probably been wounded. When Goff found a lead ball in the bone dust, he set out to prove that Columbus had been wounded. In Madrid he verified a letter written by Columbus dated July 7, 1503 that said. "The seas were so high...
Walter Edward Hoffman, 53, Federal District Court of Eastern Virginia. When he took his oath of judicial office six years ago, muscular, mild-mannered "Beef" Hoffman turned to his Methodist pastor and asked for a prayer. "This procedure may be a bit unusual," he remarked, "but it is never out of place." A Republican, Hoffman was born in New Jersey, but spent his long career as a trial lawyer in Virginia. His major legal monument is a series of important decisions in 1957 and 1958 that led to token integration of Norfolk's public schools. With unfailing sympathetic words...
...Every muscular function of the human body is triggered by a small electrical current transmitted to the muscles through the nerves. Doctors have long assumed that a chemical reaction at the synapses (the junctions between nerves) causes the impulses to flow through the nerves until-through junction after junction-they reach the muscles. But the chemistry of impulse transmission along the nerve fibers was not known. Last week Colum bia University announced that Dr. David Nachmansohn and his colleagues in the university's Department of Neurology had found new evidence to support his 20-year-old theory...
...nerve stimulus, as in birds. Nerves cannot work that fast. How then does the midge fly? In Britain's New Scientist, Professor Vincent B. Wigglesworth, extracting reports by other European scientists, supplies the answer: midges-and presumably other similar insects-are automatic flying machines. A midge's muscular motor works in much the same way as a piston engine. Once the ignition is turned on. the engine keeps running until the ignition is turned off or the fuel exhausted...
...opposite direction swerved across the road and hit the Johnson car head on. The impact jackknifed Johnson. Only his fit condition and strong body saved his back from a serious injury that would have ended all decathlon competition then and there. As it was, he suffered a severe muscular strain around the lower spine that knocked him out of another duel with Kuznetsov at the U.S.-U.S.S.R. track meet in Philadelphia in July...