Word: stumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missions Board, for the last four has been its general secretary. Modest Moderator Morse, taken a bit by surprise at being an unopposed candidate, insisted that his election was strictly a tribute to the Missions Board. Said he: "If you ever see a turtle sitting on top of a stump, you can know he didn't get there by himself." Nonetheless, it was also a personal tribute to a minister who has never had a permanent church of his own, but has done a lot for his church. His work has involved such things as the patient study...
...latest model now being worn by I.B.M. Consultant John Seeley (who is helping Manhattan's Alderson Research Laboratories to test it), the switches have been shifted from the toes to the stump at the shoulder. This puts into practice one of the principles espoused by Orthopedist Kessler: the controls must be as nearly natural as possible, so that the wearer will have to learn a minimum of new reflexes and responses. Seeley, who lost both arms at 14 when he was run over by a train, now works his electric arm by six switches which are actuated by twitches...
...limb" sensation, i.e., after an amputation, patients often "feel" pain in the lost member. Instead of trying to get rid of this sensation, doctors in Vaduz, capital of the postage-stamp principality of Liechtenstein, have been urging patients to cultivate it, e.g., by flexing the muscles in the arm stump, as if opening and closing the hand. Thus the muscle is kept active, and rehabilitation (with an electric hand) can be speeded...
Southern oratorical chant. On the stump in Florida, he seemed tired and strained...
...carried only so far as the willingness of the rich to pay taxes, which reaches a nadir about this time every year. But it is something for the Congressional axe-brandishers to consider as they chop away at foreign aid while their eyes are fastened on the election stump. While there is no police power to force them to pay the taxes of the free world, the threats of outside conquest and inner deterioration are far more pressing in the international case than in the domestic...