Word: tremors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well, even though it had, for the moment, little to detect; the moon was passing through the earth's magnetic tail (April 22, 1966), which shielded the lunar surface from the high-velocity solar particles that normally bombard it. Meanwhile, the seismometer had recorded an unexplained, two-minute tremor. And scientists were still trying to explain the strange vibrations recorded for 55 minutes by the instrument immediately after Intrepid's ascent stage impacted into the Ocean of Storms...
...origin of Parkinson's disease, there is no doubt that the immediate cause is damage to cells in a little-known part of the brain. Because of this damage, the victims of parkinsonism suffer from many symptoms that become progressively more severe and disabling: an involuntary tremor or pill-rolling movement of the fingers, rigidity of major limb muscles, hasty gait, slurred speech and difficulty in moving and turning. A parkinsonian patient falls frequently, and he develops a forward-leaning posture to protect him against toppling over backward...
...analogous symptoms in parkinsonism at Brookhaven, he tried another drug treatment. This involved efforts to raise the brain's content of melanin, the pigment in suntanned skin. "Wrong again!" declares Cotzias, with the energy of a small volcano. "The patient's skin got darker, but the tremor got worse...
...split in the Congress Party, whose unity in the past has helped hold the diversified country together, might have had grave effects on India's stability. As it turned out, Indira carried such a large part of the party with her that the country hardly felt a tremor...
...said Nora, the tremor cutting through her voice like a knife. "Someone turned that light off. I'm not doing any more." But when the circuit was fixed, Nora continued...