Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possibility that he might be visited by a muscular American...
Caused by comma-shaped bacteria known as Vibrio or Spirillum cholerae, which dwell in sewage-contaminated water, cholera drains body tissues of their fluids, causes intense vomiting, diarrhea and violent muscular spasms. More than a third of its victims shrivel up, turn dark grey or violet, die, sometimes within a few hours...
These comparative studies of the effects on the undergraduate body of the new athletic program is only one of the many projects being conducted at the Laboratory across the Charles. A major portion of the work is now devoted to research in nutrition and muscular efficiency under Government contracts for the Army and the Office of Scientific Research and Development...
Skirting the center of the fire he brought five Chinese soldiers to a makeshift hospital. There, in a palm-treed courtyard on an open, unroofed stone porch, I saw a muscular white man, stripped to the waist, making swift jabs with a surgeon's knife in a struggling Chinese soldier's arm. Three Burmese 90-lb. nurses were holding down the soldier. Gas lamps strung on wires provided the only light. In the background the crackling of the fire could be heard...
...President. He even looks the part. Iron-grey, over six feet tall, lean, muscular, cold, with a hawk nose, and down-slanting heavy brows that are a cartoonist's godsend, he looks, as he is, a personification of stubborn and violent will. Characteristic was his reply, as President-elect, to banqueting businessmen who proposed certain Governmental measures: "Don't advise me, I prefer to be wrong alone...