Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case was simple: the 27th would not fight, and Ralph Smith would not make them fight (TIME, Sept. 18, 1944). Seven days after the Saipan landing he had ordered the 27th to move up between the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions for the big attack northward along the spine of the island...
...enormous mass of tropical air drifted up the Mississippi Valley-like a soldering iron being run slowly up a dowager's spine. While chickens fell dead and pavements shimmered like cookstoves, the hot air spread east and west. Soon it was hot from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast. And it stayed hot-hot as Zamboanga in mango-picking time...
Many otherwise unrelated diseases produce spasms, tremor or stiffness of muscles: infantile paralysis, cerebral palsy, chronic rheumatism, arthritis, Parkinson's disease (paralysis agitans), apoplexy, Pott's disease (tuberculosis of the spine), hardening of the arteries. The doctors tried the drug, given by mouth, on 59 patients; all but one showed improvement-sometimes in five minutes. Drs. Berger and Schwartz consider their work still in the experimental stage...
...code it meant that Dawn would not talk and Sybil must not talk either. The Japanese halted the fire torture in time, but they invented others for Sybil: beating, branding, dripping water. By the time a British captain found her at war's end, her skull, jaw and spine had been broken, her legs temporarily paralyzed...
Hopeful Future. The new technique has obvious advantages. Because the "heavy" anesthetic is heavier than the spinal fluid, doctors can control its rise in the spine by gravity (by tilting the delivery table until the proper areas are anesthetized). In conventional spinal anesthesia, the anesthetic may rise too far and stop the patient's breathing. Usually only one injection is necessary. It acts quickly (in one to ten minutes), and relief from pain lasts from two to four hours. The patient is so comfortable that, when labor is long, she can eat, drink or smoke...