Word: superhumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world. He is also the handsomest. His eyes are "hypnotic whirlpools of flake gold" and his "perfect features display a power of character seldom seen." Best of all, Doc is really built. His "giant" body, "kilned by tropical suns and arctic winds" to a permanent bronze, possesses "a strength superhuman." He can dodge a bullet, crawl up a wall like a human fly, stay under water for eight minutes, smash through an inch-thick steel door with one punch, and take on-oh, say-a hundred armed men at a time and flip them about like Frisbees with his bare...
Prosecutor Arnold Markle quickly asserted that the state wanted a retrial. Mulvey turned him down, ruling: "With the massive publicity attendant upon the trial just completed, I find it impossible to believe that an unbiased jury could be selected without superhuman efforts which this court, the state and these defendants should not be called upon either to make or endure." He went on to explain that the hung jury, and the fact that Mrs. Huggins had been confined "for more than two years" and Seale "for at least that amount of time," had been important factors in his decision...
...judge said, "With the massive publicity attendant upon the trial just completed, I find it impossible to believe that an unbiased jury could be selected without superhuman efforts which this count, the state and these defendants should not be called upon either to make or to endure...
...Going there (the Nationals) for the first time, I kind of over-exaggerated the competition and pictured it as being superhuman but once I got on the mat with some of those guys, I found I could actually handle them." Starr said. "I went with an attitude of hoping to place, next time...
Macrobiotics, like other panaceas, can be many things to many people. Some think that it confers superhuman strength. But many macrobiotics use the diet to become less aggressive and, above all, more spiritual. "It's not the food that is important so much. It is the understanding. Through your food you are trying to attain the order of the universe," says Jimmy Silver, a Hollywood macrobiotic enthusiast...