Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will have suffered permanent loss of feeling in the affected part of his body. Now an imaginative University of Chicago neurosurgeon has devised a way to achieve the desired relief of pain by a relatively minor operation under a local anesthetic. His method also permits the numbed area to regain sensation after about six months...
...never too late, he believes, for a sedentary, flabby man to undo the damage of neglect, to slow the aging process and regain a measure of youth. The program is spelled out in detail in his new book Physical Fitness and Dynamic Health (Dial Press; $5.95). Not only does carefully planned, all-out exercise improve circulation, but, insists Cureton (a Ph.D. in physical education), "maintenance of sound circulatory condition may even forestall the onset of serious chronic diseases" as well as strengthening the heart, easing psychological tensions and cutting mental fatigue by toning up the body...
...recuperation behind him, he will go back to prison to complete his sentence of three to five years for breaking and entering. Pennell will soon become eligible for parole, and hopes eventually to start life anew as a two-fisted worker in a furniture factory. Though he may never regain full feeling in his left hand, Dr. Meredith expects it will eventually recover 70% of its function...
...even after she "came to," until he touched her elbow. When he ended the trance, the girl remained rooted before the receiver, her left arm numb and inert. After the usual wait for a hospital elevator, Spiegel walked into the laboratory and touched her elbow. Only then did she regain sensation in the arm and the power to move it independently...
Gampu leaves his native village, pursuing a man he believes to be his young daughter's killer-a defeated warrior who was told by a conniving witch doctor that he could regain power by eating the heart of a child. Before the witch doctor is brought down from his clifftop retreat and exposed as a fraud, Gampu has been clapped into a Johannesburg jail, charged with attempted murder. His friend in need, sent over by Legal Aid, is Stanley Baker, whose wife (Juliet Prowse) keeps prodding him to "care about people." Notwithstanding its bizarre and colorful appeal, Dingaka ends...