Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as Rancher Gill had been massaged, yanked and kneaded into some semblance of muscular control, had learned all over again how to wash his face, tie his tie, handle a knife & fork, he headed for his ranch in the Amazon jungle. He was in charge of an expedition, financed by Philanthropist Sayre Merrill, 1) to worm from the Indians the black magic of curare cooking, 2) to bring back to the U. S. enough curare for laboratory use, 3) to bring back any other useful drugs from the Indian pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best...
Taciturn son of humble parents in Italy's fightingest province, Piedmont, his greatest talents are for organizing and understanding Italian peasants. Boccia, their game of bowls, is his favorite and at it he, big-handed and muscular, is a champion. He also excels at bridge, is said never to overbid. Among military men he rates high as an able, likable professional. France's Gamelin was his good friend, though they differed on war of position v. war of motion...
Whiskey for Arteries. In artery ailments, such as arteriosclerosis or Buerger's disease, patients are often attacked by muscular weakness so severe that their legs buckle under them. To tone up the muscles, doctors try to send a large supply of blood to the legs. For this they give drugs to expand the blood vessels, injections of salt solution, or even cut certain tracts in the sympathetic nervous system. As a check on the blood supply they take the temperature of the skin: if the temperature rises, they assume that the leg is getting a large supply of blood...
...whiff, they said, makes soldiers stagger and fall, their muscular coordination anesthetized as by "twilight sleep." Fuhrer Hitler last weekend personally handed the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross to Lieut. Witzig and seven other flying officers for their "incomparable daring" in taking Eben Emael and certain bridges over the Albert Canal. He promoted Lieut. Witzig to captain. To the inventors of the new Angriffsmittel went greater tribute: real alarm among the Allies lest this unknown new weapon prove a key to unlock the Maginot Line...
...years ago the Associated Press wanted to adorn the entrance to its new building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center with a large, impressive plaque in conventional bronze, offered a prize of $1,000 for the best design. Winner was Isamu Noguchi, muscular, California-born, Japanese-Irish sculptor, who submitted a small-scale plaster model depicting five symbolic figures (editor, reporter, photographer, teletype and telephoto operators) straining eyes and ears for news. With sudden inspiration and daring, A. P. decided to have its plaque in stainless steel...