Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Local boards were ordered to make a drastic cut in physical requirements. Any man who has been able to fill a civilian job despite stuttering, partial paralysis, a hernia or a crooked spine, will be deemed suitable for the interim army. So will other 4-Fs previously disqualified because of "mental deficiencies, mild in degree." With 1,250,000 4-Fs to choose from, the Army hopes to wipe out its deficit by the end of April...
...business of standing up started a whole series of disorders stemming from the extra stress & strain put on the lumbosacral area, keystone of the spine. Practically everyone at one time or another has back pains. The only exception: toddlers, who temporarily retain a few quadruped characteristics...
Ancient man's evolution into a creature standing on two legs modified his skeleton as well as his habits. The spine curved and grew longer; the ilia or wings of the pelvis flattened out; the last vertebrae became a flexible lever on which the body's weight was poised. But nature added no new muscles to support the upright...
General George S. Patton Jr., riding in an Army Cadillac to a pheasant-shoot near Mannheim, Germany, was crashed into by an Army truck, wound up in a Heidelberg hospital, his spine fractured, his body partly paralyzed. Wife Beatrice flew from Washington to the bedside of the 60-year-old veteran of World War I and II and many a personality battle...
...nearest by a coat lapel, shoved him into position, then knocked him clear out of the joint with a murderous left. Unnerved, the other holdup men backed out, shooting at point-blank range. Bummy dived after them, swinging wildly and roaring horrible epithets. Bullets hit him in the spine, the lungs, the right arm. He kept swinging his left. He was outside, running for his automobile to give further chase, before he finally fell dead...