Word: tractional
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...sets of statutes. The same thing seems in store for skiing. So many people are now getting around on skis that they are running into each other as well as less animate objects at alarming rates. The first thing they want to know as soon as they are in traction is whom...
...sometimes intrudes. In 1965, the hospital was caught in crossfire between Viet Cong and Americans. Dr. Smith herded all her patients into the wards and got all but one, a boy in traction, onto the floor to reduce the risk of casualties from machine-gun bullets. When Americans urged her by phone from Kontum to take refuge in the city, she snapped: "Don't be ridiculous! I can't leave my patients." Then a stray bullet hit a woman in the thigh, and Dr. Smith was on the phone again, this time barking at an American commander: "Stop...
Good fortune obviously could not stay at that astronomical peak-and it didn't. Marichal won 22 games in 1964; he also spent weeks in traction with a pinched nerve in his back. Even that was a minor crisis compared with The Incident of 1965, when for the first time anyone can remember Juan Marichal lost his cool completely-thereby endangering another man's life and his own career...
Moon Walker's agility derives from its stainless-steel tubular legs, which have hinged, almost human knees, and flat, hooflike feet with rippled soles to give them traction. The legs operate in pairs, one leg of each pair supporting the walker's weight while the other leg is in motion. They are moved by battery-operated electric motors and controlled by a four-way lever that is so sensitive a multiple-amputee child can operate it with his chin...
...Bulletin, Miss Bieberman makes a correction in the peyote ex- traction process she had described in the previous issue. "If you did it the other way," she concludes, "you threw away the mescaline--we hope nobody did." Under the heading "The Movement," she announces lectures to be given by Alpert on the West Coast. His organization, which he describes as a "West Coast Nervous System," plans to open a Psychedelic Discotheque...