Word: sores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rigid but Sore-Free. It was sheer good fortune that the broken vertebrae were in the lumbar region and did not damage the end of the spinal cord-a far less serious situation than if they had been in the cervical or thoracic areas, where the cord might have been severed by dislocation of the bones. A break of any of the cervical vertebrae could have paralyzed Teddy's body from the neck down, while a fracture of any of the twelve thoracic vertebrae might well have paralyzed his trunk or legs...
...acre of oats was prematurely harvested to provide a landing pad for the Johnson party's helicopters. After Lyndon learned that Marlow, a Navy veteran with a back ailment, subsists on $1,500 a year, the President recalled his own Texas boyhood and how his fingers got sore from milking cows. He asked Mrs. Marlow if her children get enough to eat. She said: "They get about everything they need, but clothes is hard." Johnson asked Marlow about his back. "What you got? A disk?" Said Marlow: "Yes, but these boys do pretty well. They pretty well keep...
...Dave Benjamin at number two came up with a sore shoulder that hampered his game. Unable to serve or hit an overhead with power, he dropped a 6-2, 6-4 match to the Elis' Bob Archer...
...only sore spot came in the Rose Garden. The President gave the White House beagles, Him and Her, some candy-coated vitamin pills, then lifted the dogs up onto their haunches by pulling their ears and noted their yapping with apparent pleasure. "It's good for them," he said. "It does them good to let them bark." Assembled in the garden was a 13-man task force organized to promote increased foreign investment in the U.S. Neither they nor the President thought much about the incident...
...Pocket. When Sir William became editor twelve years ago, the Times's image stood in sore need of burnishing. Competitors derided the paper as the "Whimperer." Its circulation had fallen to 230,000 and was to fall even farther. Sir William himself seemed an improbable choice as savior: a shy, austere man who, after twelve years as director of the British Broadcasting Corp., was irreverently remembered as "the man with two glass eyes...