Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kari Harrington is seven years old and a victim of severe cerebral palsy. Thus she lacks the muscular coordination necessary for controlled movement and speech, and is virtually restricted to a wheelchair. Like many other victims of the disease, she will never be able to move around normally or speak well enough to be understood. Now an experimental training program that uses printed symbols to convey meaning has begun to draw her out of her isolated world...
...numerous settings where lies may be told: in a police station, perhaps, at a press conference, on the speaker's platform at a political meeting, or in the bedroom of a married-or unmarried couple. The tape is fed into a machine that measures muscular micro-tremors in the voice, faint quivers that come from the muscles in the voice box and cause slight changes in pitch. Changes are not detectable by ear, but they can be traced on a chart by a pen linked to the machine. It is the capacity to detect and reproduce these tremors-apparently...
...Bremer is now in custody, the President was safe in Moscow last week, and Wallace was in the hospital making considerable progress-both medically and politically. The Alabama Governor had experienced what doctors described as "involuntary muscular sensation" in his toes, and vital signs remained stable. Whether or not the plucky presidential candidate makes good his promise to appear at the Democratic National Convention in July, however, largely depends on the results of an operation to remove the remaining .38-cal. bullet lodged in his spinal canal...
...others estimated it at $500,000) in Florida than New York's Mayor John Lindsay. No one made his position clearer. Lindsay sailed into Wallace, calling him "the phoniest populist since time began" and claiming that "he is no man of the people when he travels with 25 muscular state troopers with bulges under their coats." Lindsay argued that the only alternative to busing was "perpetual racial segregation" and that the nation could not afford such alienation. He criticized his senatorial rivals for compromising on the issue in Congress. His was a bold stand, but Lindsay was trounced...
Dogging the Dow's progress are the limp performances of quite a few of its stocks, including Anaconda, United Aircraft, U.S. Steel and International Harvester. Profits of many of the big firms have been vitiated by recession, expropriation of their property abroad and muscular foreign competition. Because their size makes them so visible and the impact of their actions is so widespread, the prices that large firms charge are more tightly controlled than those of smaller companies...