Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hiatus is simply an opening, the word being derived appropriately from the Latin verb hiare, to yawn. The esophagus (gullet), which carries food from the mouth to the stomach, passes through a hiatus in the diaphragm, the muscular wall that divides the chest and abdominal cavities. A hernia is a rupture, or break, usually in a muscle, that permits an organ to protrude through it. A hiatal hernia is an enlarged opening at the point where the gullet goes through the diaphragm. A relatively small hernia will permit the lowest part of the gullet to slide upward into the chest...
...Bruner, the infant hand speaks a kind of faltering language at birth, and incrementally exhibits its innate competence-just as the neuromuscular system involved in speech, by conquering its inexperience, ultimately produces syntax and fluency. Another experiment has helped persuade Bruner of certain parallels between the acquisition of muscular competence and of speech. An infant is given a cup of milk. It first draws the cup in at any angle and spills most of the contents. Quite abruptly, however, without trial and error, the problem is solved. In a sequence of jerky and separate movements, the baby brings...
...just as everything looks deadly, writer John Eskow comes up with some creations that are grotesque enough to make it all worthwhile: an NBC memorial program on the assassination of "Miss America" host Bert Parks, an unmentionable comment on Jerry Lewis and muscular-distrophy charity campaigns, a hip black guy who insists on being referred to as "colored" and who hates James Brown, a television writer who dreams up the show "Clap City: the continuing story of a gonorrhea epidemic...
...Skip Hare in the long jump will all be near the top in their events and should provide important team points. Hare, third in the long jump last year, seems to have recovered from a troublesome leg injury. Sophomore 600 runner John Gillis has been plagued with similar muscular troubles and may be handicapped against Army's top-seeded middle distance men today...
Double Deal. When President Kennedy offered him the same Washington assignment in 1961, Allen, a gaunt, muscular-faced West Virginian, turned it down. He had spent six years on the job in New York, and he was convinced that the best hope for improved schools lay with the states. Even though he has since changed his mind about the importance of federal influence, Allen refused President Nixon's initial offer because of his doubts about the new Administration's priorities for education. He finally accepted after he was given two posts-that of U.S. Commissioner of Education...