Word: muscularly
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...Tack's" reverence for Texas is fanatical and often funny. Panhandle women, he wrote, have the world's prettiest legs, made strong and muscular by leaning against the fierce Panhandle winds. Panhandle dogs are tougher; Panhandle skunks are twice as odorous. Even in the dust-bowl days he bragged that no other place could produce such suffocating dust clouds. According to legend, the Northwest Texas Hospital took Tack's tall boastings so seriously that it ordered beds a foot longer than normal to accommodate Panhandle patients...
...This muscular young miss grimaces and screams; indeed, it is a tribute to Astaire's sure and quick footing that she does not step on his toes. She is as out of place as would be a haggard Navaho dancing tom-tom circles in the Easter Parade. If one could only blot out her image, the film would be vastly improved, as it is during three brief dance sequences when Astaire is alone and unmolested...
Trevor Howard is completely fitting as the grim pebbly faced Englishman, for whom an almost unnoticeable muscular movement is sufficient to turn a rapturous smile into a scowl of the utmost malevolence. Anouk is one of the newer French exports; her nose is larger than most, but otherwise she is cut from the whole cloth...
...taking over the Democratic Party," he roared. "He lies and he knows he's lying. He says that I'm a controlled candidate. He is controlled by the big money interests and he can never be a free man." Candidate Ferguson fanned the air with his short, muscular arms. "I'll be the freest man," he promised, "that ever treaded the U.S. Senate...
Closely related, but striking more often at adolescents and adults, is the form of muscular dystrophy to which men & women are almost equally subject. The facial and shoulder muscles are weakened first; the forearms and hands are less likely to be affected. The patient may live for many years, severely handicapped...