Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pharmaceutical Co., the new suppository drug is based on one of the prostaglandins, hormone-like compounds once believed to originate in the male prostate gland. Researchers have long realized that certain prostaglandins could induce contractions in smooth muscles, including those of the womb. Soon doctors were using them to speed up labor in difficult births and to induce abortion when other techniques had failed, or seemed unsuitable. Yet such abortifacients (as these drugs are called) had serious shortcomings. Usually administered intravenously, they often caused stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other physical problems. Thus pharmaceutical firms have looked for artificial...
...word that Felske says is conditioning. Having worked with former Australian greats Harry Hopman, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson and Fred Stolle, who he says have influenced him greatly, Felske places greater emphasis on conditioning than he does technique. He has introduced exercising drills to the team, stressed endurance, speed and flexibility and in an effort to foster togetherness, works with three or four players on the court at a time rather than have each individual hit by herself for an hour on the ball machine...
...report, the ACSR does little more than present the alternatives the Corporation may choose to adopt in dealing with portfolio companies operating in South Africa. By refusing to urge Harvard to help speed the withdrawal of these companies from South Africa, the committee turns a deaf ear on the will of the majority of Harvard's undergraduates--a will clearly expressed through a variety of petitions, demonstrations, House, freshman and organizational votes. Harvard students are joined in their demands by a host of national and international groups, ranging from the NAACP to the Congressional Black Caucus to the U.N. General...
...Speed: average. Throwing arm: mediocre. Potential: may have started too late to make it. Such a rating from a major-league batting instructor might cause some ballplayers to hang up their gloves. But in this case the instructor was Mickey Mantle and the player, Mickey Mantle Jr., who at 23 wants to give baseball "my best shot." Mickey Jr. played for a Florida military academy in his teens, but feeling that he was "too immature to cope with the pressures of being Mickey Mantle's son," went off to sell insurance in Dallas. Now trying out for a Yankee...
...neither the Rolling Thunder television special or the live album. Renaldo and Clara also contains some of the best concert footage ever shot, including the Rolling Stones in Gimme Shelter. But as relief from the concerts we get documentary-style interviews, the best of which--David Blue and his speed freak raps at the pinball machine, an interview with black street kids uptown in New York about Hurricane Carter--are moderately interesting. The worst of which--any scene with Allen Ginsburg, most scenes with Ronnie Hawkins, generally everything else--are just boring...