Word: spined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Papaya injections alleviate lower-spine pain...
...farm and the marriage rapidly deteriorated. In 1914, Bror, a notorious womanizer, infected Karen with syphilis. In the future it would affect her spine and cause her incalculable agonies. Initially, though, it was sexual jealousy that provided the sorrow. After the divorce, there seemed little to hold the baroness in Africa-except Denys Finch Hatton. A romantic British figure out of a silent movie, he was a World War I veteran, pilot, expatriate and gentleman farmer. She became pregnant by him and miscarried. Four years later the lovers quarreled ferociously. A few days afterward, Denys died in a plane accident...
...year, the model and maybe the serial number of every car there. They probably built most of them. That is why they came to Detroit from the rural South and kept on coming for three decades. Appalachian roots still show in the way the men stand. Pride straightens the spine like nothing else. The Southern community, they are called, or "country people," or - very carefully and at some risk if it comes from an outsider's at some risk if it comes from an outsider's mouth-hillbillies...
Merely because a student planned in advance to miss the exam did not make the process any easier. Scott Jacobs '85 missed a math exam last spring because of an operation he was to have two days later on his spine. He said he will now petition to take the entire course over again because he has forgotten so much...
...dated high-tech novelty items. Norwegians Svein Gusrud and Hans Christian Mengshoel's Balans Activ chair contraption (1979), made in Norway, is equally uncharming. It consists of a kneepad connected by steel tubes to a padded seat, all of which is supposed to relieve pressure on the spine. It is, instead, a pain in the eyes...