Word: nailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nail down the relationship between on-the-job physical activity and heart-artery disease, Drs. Jeremy N. Morriss and Margaret D. Crawford of Britain's Medical Research Council persuaded 206 hospitals to report on post-mortem examinations of the hearts and coronary arteries of 5,000 men, regardless of the cause of death. The findings, reported in the British Medical Journal, show that heart disease occurs in inverse ratio to the heaviness of work. Large, healed scars in the heart muscle-evidence of a long-ago heart attack-were three times commoner in light workers (schoolteachers, bus drivers, clerks...
...machete and in turn been murdered, Maria took flight from this Mexican Egypt to give birth to Manuel. From infancy he is one apart. He has a "disease" not quite epilepsy, but something that sometimes makes him unaware of things around him. At nine he whittles a wooden nail to wound his palm. He smears himself with pig's blood. In episodes intended to echo Jesus' sojourn in the temple, he learns the ancient Nahuatl language and mythology...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). The So-Called Human Race, a walleyed, satirical look at psychiatry by George Panetta, whose credentials include an off-Broadway comedy called Comic Strip that nail-tough Critic Walter Kerr dismissed as "perfect...
...there is much more to the Summer School than the nightly collection of hungry males ogling the windows of female - filled Wiggles-worth, the sight of a bare nail-polished foot extended upon a chair during a final exam, and the overly friendly girls who ask a young man whether he "would tutor me in this course because I just have no idea of what's going on." This summer saw an unusually large number of renowned professors among the School's faculty: Allen Tate, C. Northcote Parkinson, Angus Taylor, Harold Schmidt, and many others. On a poll distributed...
Such revelations about an "average" hospital population still do not prove that disease is a direct consequence of depression, notes Dr. Schmale. Disease and depression may be quite separate attempts by the bodymind to adapt to loss and despair. To really nail down a link between object loss and biological vulnerability, it is also necessary to see how some people survive personality blows without getting sick. But theoretically, health depends largely on keeping the ego intact. If it does, then a blueprint analysis of a patient's personality may become as useful in preventive medicine...