Word: underweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back, filed a $1.1 million suit accusing Kush of assault, public defamation of character and a conspiracy to drive him off the team. In 1977 Rutledge was one of the school's few freshmen to win a varsity letter, but a 1978 car accident left him weak and underweight. He says that he asked to be red-shirted (sit out the games but attend practices) for that season. Kush scheduled him to play. Rutledge was averaging a poor 34.6 yds. per kick, and in last year's match with Washington he made a particularly bad punt...
...RESULT of such problems has been an alarming increase in the incidence of disease and malnutrition among the very young. Babies fed with formula under inappropriate conditions are caught in a vicious, ultimately debilitating cycle--underweight babies are prone to infections causing diarrhea, and babies with diarrhea extract fewer nutrients from the food they eat, aggravating the malnutrition. Bottle formulas lack the immunilogical benefits of breast feeding, which are especially key in unsanitary conditions. Scientists believe that immunity probably comes from the initial dose of antibodies in the colostrum (the yellowish fluid that comes from the mother's breast...
...They weighed me and measured my height," he said. "The doctor wrote it down and called the next guy. I had to tell him. 'Wait a minute. I'm underweight...
...plot of Annie Hall has the two underweight egos twine together, rose and briar. For a while they twitch as one, forming a touching sort of pill pool and neurosis bank in Alvy's Manhattan apartment. Then it is over. Annie drifts off to Los Angeles; Alvy writes a play about the affair, wistfully giving it a happy ending in which the lovers unite. The film's details are not meant to match reality exactly. Keaton, then 22, and Allen, then 33, met when he was casting his Broadway comedy Play It Again, Sam, not after a tennis match...
...extremely skinny--not svelte, but unnaturally thin. She starved herself torturously to achieve and maintain her underweight state. She ignored the hunger pangs in her stomach and she denied to her family and friends that she was hungry, because she felt fat and wanted to be thin. When she got horribly skinny people got very worried but she thought she still needed to lose weight, and still she would not--or could not--eat. "It's this big secret," she says of the first stages of anorexia. "You're so guilty about it, but it's obvious that everybody knows...