Word: ribbing
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...involving the Alfred I. du Pont Institute and the state board of health, routinely checks schoolchildren with a simple test: the youngsters are asked to bend at the waist and touch their knees with their fingertips; a curvature will usually produce a visible fullness on one side of the rib cage or the other. In most Minnesota schools, nurses and physical education teachers regularly check youngsters in the fifth through tenth grades. Testing is also routinely conducted in Downey, Calif., and a program is being proposed for elementary schools in New York's Nassau County...
...stiff plastic boots that protect the ankles, and bindings that release under bone-breaking tensions, such injuries make up only 16% of the total. "The reduction in leg injuries has been bought at the expense of the arm and torso," the doctors say. Twelve years ago, sprained and broken ribs, arms and shoulders were relatively rare among skiers. Since then, sprains have increased fourfold. Arm and shoulder breaks have gone up by a factor of three, rib breaks by a factor of ten. Obviously, the force of a fall once absorbed by the legs is now being taken...
...depends on a skilled corps of servants. Eaton Place may be home to the Bellamys, but it belongs to their servants: Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Bridges, Footman Edward and, of course, Rose, whom Actress Jean Marsh has made into the most fetching cockney sparrow since George Bernard Shaw detached a rib called Eliza Doolittle...
...William Manchester, the son of a Massachusetts social worker, was ten years old. Boys five years older than he were earning $2.78 a week in the sweatshops of Brooklyn, as Manchester might already have learned. (Even at ten he was a compulsive newspaper reader.) But then prime rib roast cost only 21? per lb., and young Manchester could buy a ticket to see Jackie Cooper in the "talkie" When a Feller Needs a Friend for 10?. The real trouble was that 28% of all Americans had no income...
...Adam's Rib, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 8-10, 7:30 and 11:15 (no late show Sunday); Pat and Mike...