Word: muscularly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Israeli losses during the "war of attrition" with Egypt. "Toilet humor," growled Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Three months ago an English-language lampoon called Lillit, published by Hebrew University students, suddenly lost both circulation and government financial support. The magazine had carried the comic-strip adventures of a muscular "SuperGolda"; her principal adversary was a Tel Aviv intellectual driven berserk by police corruption, religious fanaticism, militarism, pollution, inflation and social inequality. Israel's state-run television network last January introduced a show called Not Everything Is Overlooked, which mixed music and political satire. After seeing the show, Golda...
...heart disease or effectively treats cancer. Vitamin C's function as a cold cure is also uncertain. Its safety-if taken in quantities hundreds of times greater than the recommended daily requirement of about 60 mg.-is questionable. Though deficiencies of vitamin E will produce the symptoms of muscular dystrophy in rats, doctors are not yet convinced that such symptoms may exist in humans. "Vitamin E," say some physicians, "is a cure looking for a disease...
Tyrell Hennings is a muscular 205-pound fullback, but when I first met him, he weighed in at a scrawny 130. We went out for freshman football together at Chicago's South Shore High School, and Tyrell played second-string quarterback. We played four years of ball together, and he was never to play second fiddle again...
...mainly professional. He spent most of his time working, traveling, bombarding his editors with ideas, engaging in the political affairs of his time. Swanberg's book is less a biography than an ideological assessment, and it soon becomes an all-out political assault on Luce-for his muscular Christianity, his anti-Communist internationalism, and his notion that divine providence helped in the origin of the American experiment and gave America a special mission to help make the world safe for democracy...
...Lowder, a decent, attractive and rather priggish young lawyer with political ambitions. To help a feckless law partner who is in financial trouble, and because there seems no reason not to, Lowder accepts a bribe from a Mafia-connected moneyman whose activities are under investigation. The novel follows the muscular workings of the hero's conscience, which, after much interior melodrama, sees him through...