Word: straightener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often as three times a day, and he has needed cortisone shots-three so far. The last one, three weeks ago, had to go directly into the joint to ease the agony. "It does hurt more," he admits. "In fact, it hurts most of the time." He cannot straighten the arm beyond 22°, and the bone spurs on the elbow have grown from i in. to i in. "The spurs," says Dr. Kerlan, "represent an attempt by the body to immobilize the joint." Despite all, Koufax has not missed a turn...
...Betty Bacall issued a brisk ultimatum to herself: "Damn it, straighten up! Pull yourself together and point yourself in the right direction. MOVE!" The move was back to work: "It helped me enormously. There's always something about making a decision in your life. It takes a load off your back." At work she found herself possessed of one of the strengths peculiar to the middle years: "It is necessary for anyone to practice his craft to do it well and to improve. But also, in a strange way you have to live a certain amount of life...
...comprehend the ideas of leftness and rightness. They manipulate letters that have been fashioned from pipe cleaners, feel the shapes with their eyes closed as the teacher pronounces the letter's sound. The aim, says Mrs. McGlannan, is to blend sight, sound and touch in order to straighten out jumbled perceptions by "involving all the sensory pathways...
...that the attack has shown some spark, perhaps the Crimson's overworked defense can straighten itself out. The defense has not been able to put four good periods together and has undergone frequent lapses...
...Harvard Biologist George Wald, 59, shows why. As a researcher, he has made one of the most enlightening finds of recent decades: his discovery of the Vitamin A molecule in the retina goes a long way toward explaining the physiology of eyesight. Light, it seems, makes this crooked molecule straighten out and signal the optic nerve. The very originality of such work also makes Wald a frontiers-of-research lecturer, and his "Nat Sci 5," in the Harvard Crimson's judgment, is "one of Harvard's truly great courses...