Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dwyer, describing how it felt to be Mayor, "it's about the same as being a grocery clerk. I haven't the time to realize the drama of the situation. But when I am by myself ... I get a funny feeling up and down my spine...
Shudders will go up a lot of spines because of James Burnham's new book (The Struggle for the World-John Day; $3) published just five days after President Truman's historic message to Congress (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Burnham's purpose is neither to create nor allay shudders, but to stiffen the national spine...
...collapsed during chiropractic treatment -one for headaches, the other for hay fever. They were taken, unconscious, to the hospital at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina, died there a few hours later. The hospital doctors were puzzled: there were no signs of injury to the spine (the usual target of a chiropractor's manipulations), no clues to the cause of death. Autopsies on the patients' brains showed that the cerebellums were badly bruised and full of blood clots...
Chiropractors (not to be confused with osteopaths, who often have medical degrees and base their treatments on correcting faulty body structure) still work on Founder Palmer's theory that most human ills derive from "subluxations" (dislocations) of the spinal column. Their treatment: "adjustment" (manipulation) of the spine, offered as a cure-all for a wide range of ailments, from scarlet fever to stomach ulcers...
When the Spitsbergen story finally reached the press last week, it sent cold shivers down many a diplomatic spine. The State Department frigidly recalled that the 1920 treaty giving Spitsbergen and Bear Island to Norway had been signed by 30 nations, including the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and could not be amended (at least in theory) except by general consent. The treaty specifically prohibited military installations on the islands...