Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grafts from his abdomen, has slowly knitted together during the past four months. He still has no feeling or movement in the limb. Not for another few months will the surgeons undertake thg. tricky task of reopening the leg to sew together the finger-thick sheath of the sciatic (spinal) nerve. They are going on surgeons' experience that nerves mend better when they are connected several months after an accident, figure that Smith will start walking again-although with a severe limp-within a year...
...Among the regulars, a social historian might have noted an evolutionary decline in the Riviera male. His feet are no longer used for walking, but only to depress accelerators or shuffle through the cha cha cha. Long hours spent in low sports cars seemed to have given him a spinal slump. His flaccid hands may seem barely strong enough to steady a highball glass or stifle a yawn...
...Spinal Block. In Milan, Italy, while hard at work during an operation, Anesthetist Francesco Aimale was out cold for an hour after a light fixture fell on him from the ceiling...
...advice of a medical evaluation board, the Marine Corps began honorable discharge proceedings on Corporal Matthew McKeon, a staff sergeant drill instructor until he led six recruits to their death on a night march through the swamps of Parris Island, S.C. nearly three years ago. Troubled by a ruptured spinal disk, McKeon, twelve years a leatherneck, gets $5,700 in severance pay, said simply: "I hate to leave the corps...
...Spinal Column Right. In Sydney, Australia, Robert McGrath won $938 compensation after he told a district court that, during a military training course, he had injured his back coming to attention...