Word: necked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work during pollio season! She should have gotten medals from the March of Dimes! Open your mouth. Why is your throat red? Do you have a headache you're not telling me about? You're not going to any baseball game. Alex, until I see you move your neck. Is your neck stiff? Then why are you moving that...
...even more speculative and sexist than those she decries. In The Descent of Woman (Stein & Day; $7.95), Author Morgan proposes that many of mankind's current physical and behavioral characteristics developed during a period when prehominid apes spent much of their time on sandy shores and in neck-high waters. Led by females, she says, the apes abandoned the dying forests, found life on the open plains too threatening and took to the ocean, where they lived for ten million years before resuming a land-based way of life...
...vagina is easily accessible from the rear, the human vagina has moved forward and is "tidily tucked away" deep in the body, "possibly for protection against salt water and abrasive sand." Man's penis thus "grew longer for the same reason as the giraffe's neck -to enable it to reach something otherwise inaccessible." The male "came around to the front because he could no longer make it from the back...
...supervised workouts that follow are anything but easy. The members of the class warm up with a series of calisthenics, then pause, eyes on the clock and fingers pressed to their neck arteries to check their heart rates. Then they jog around the gym, each member following the plan designed to bring his heart up to the desired rate. The class then goes into more strenuous calisthenics, and ends with walking to cool down. The effect is to retrain and strengthen the heart muscle so that it can work harder without fatigue...
...prove his undoing. He loses his much abused wife (Lois Nettleton) and teen-age son just when he comes to realize he needs them both. He wrassles unsuccessfully with guilt when his best buddy, Clete (Slim Pickens), a rodeo clown who keeps an avuncular eye on Lew, gets his neck broken for his trouble. When last seen, Lew is wandering off over yonder hill, saddle over his shoulder, sadder but prob ably not much wiser...