Word: spinal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Looking back, most of his associates date his emergence as a bona fide liberal-and probably as a presidential aspirant-to the years 1955-56. His serious 1954 operation to correct a wartime back injury-double fusion of spinal discs, with complications from Addison's disease-brought Kennedy to the brink of death; last rites of the Catholic Church were pronounced. In the long months of convalescence, he had opportunity to contemplate his political fu ture. (Wife Jacqueline Kennedy rejects the theory that this was his moment of political truth: "That way you can sort...
...this way, they cause a harmless infection. They do this in the digestive tract and render this part of the body an unsuitable seeding ground for future invasions of poliovirus. (The Salk vaccine triggers the production of antibodies, which circulate in the blood and protect the brain and spinal cord against paralysis, but does not sterilize...
...their social inferiority is often the implement of their trade-a handleless broom made by binding together a bundle of twigs. Stooped over this broom, the lowly outcast daily sweeps India's streets and village squares, its courtyards and bedrooms. Not only does this lead to agonizing backaches, spinal curvature and a characteristic cringing posture, but also years of inhaling the clouds of dust stirred up contribute to an alarming pulmonary tuberculosis rate. Yet generations of foreign travelers, "asking why India's sweepers do not use a stand-up broom with a handle, have invariably been answered with...
...went to Harvard). The Army rejected him because of a football injury to his back, but the Navy accepted him. The back was reinjured when a Japanese destroyer knifed through Lieut. Kennedy's PT boat in 1943. He spent most of 1944 in a Navy hospital, underwent a spinal disk operation, which was not fully successful. As a consequence, in October 1954, surgeons performed a delicate fusion of spinal disks. Slow to heal and set back by relapses that were complicated by the adrenal shortage, his condition became so grave that his family was summoned to his bedside...
...rose, Mrs. Rogers felt something snap in her back. X rays disclosed a compression fracture, with one vertebra crushed. But despite the injury to her spinal column, she suffered no paralysis. This week, fitted with a special brace, she is at St. Joseph's Hospital. What amazes Mrs. Rogers' physician, Dr. William A. Moore III, is the fact that she could have exerted herself at all. She had been ill at home for two weeks, recovering from a rheumatic disorder of the left knee and an attack of thrombophlebitis in her right leg. How far she might have...