Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the beginning, investigators have focused most of their suspicions on Jack Matlick. In the seven years after Frank Brach's death, the muscular onetime deliveryman practically became lord of the manor. He directed workmen around the estate and took care of business for "the missus." He knew every detail of her life, even that she stored a lock of her hair in an ivory box in her bedroom. Says John Demand, a former detective who participated in the investigation: "I had the strange feeling that Matlick had taken over her entire personality." He even used her glasses...
...psyched himself into manic pretensions and took the title from Sonny Listen, he was a dazzling, dancing fighter. In midcareer, when he willed his body through three epic bouts with Joe Frazier, he was a courageous fighter. Toward the end, when he paced his guttering resources to turn away muscular challengers like Ken Norton, he was a thinking fighter. Last week he was an old fighter. He had to match the craft of his past against an opponent who seemed to have little more than youth, stamina?and courage?on his side...
...that they once held the most coveted title in boxing. Three of the ex-champs since Joe Louis are dead: Rocky Marciano was killed in a plane crash in 1969, Sonny Liston died of an overdose of drugs in 1970, and in 1975 Ezzard Charles succumbed to the lingering muscular disease that killed baseball's Lou Gehrig. Louis and the other five surviving champions have coped with life without the title in a variety of ways...
...account for all this added heft? Laments Statistician Sidney Abraham, the main author of the center's report: "Adults are obviously not getting appreciably taller, and they usually do not get more muscular. All we can say is that the weight increase we found is due to fat." One cause might be junk food and quick lunches, eaten hastily. Independent physicians who treat many overweight patients are inclined to put at least as much if not more blame on prolonged TV watching, especially for men who spend many weekend hours entranced by football, enhanced with a six-pack of beer...
Hamsters are also useful for research in other diseases, such as epilepsy, muscular distrophy, and obesity caused by glandular problems, Homborger said...