Word: underweights
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...young Thomas Jonathan Jackson had been called up in World War II, he would have been a problem. The doctors would have noted that he was underweight, had weak eyes and a bad stomach. The psychiatrists would have frowned at his religious fanaticism, his unwillingness to fight on Sunday, and his neurotic habit of raising one arm in the air to "lighten it" because he was convinced that it was heavier than the other...
...captained by Eli's "Little Blue Boy," Albie Booth. MacArthur entered the Foreign Service in 1935, served in Vancouver, Naples, Paris, Lisbon and Vichy, where he was interned by the Germans in 1942. Exchanged 16 months later, he encountered a Vichy official, gave a pointed reason for being underweight: "You would probably have lost weight yourself, sir, if we had handed you over to the Japanese...
...machine candidate for a Boston City Council seat from the safe Back Bay district "to gain laboratory-experience in politics," as he puts it. He lost by 35 votes. When war broke out in December, he tried to volunteer for military service, but was turned down because he was underweight and his eyes were weak. Disappointed in his wish to see combat, he was recruited by an old family friend, Archibald MacLeish, to serve with Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Charles Poore, and E. B. White in "that magnificent stable of writers," the Office of Facts and Figures. For seven months...
...sits Jambo. He huddles beneath a blanket with only his eyes staring glumly out to greet the world. His eyes are deep brown with dark rings beneath them. His entire appearance is extraordinarily melancholy--especially for a gorilla from Central Africa. But Jambo is not only melancholy and underweight--he is neurotic...
...Diabetes among children is increasing, warns University of Rochester Pediatrician-Professor Gilbert B. Forbes in GP magazine of the American Academy of General Practice. His observations about young diabetes victims: 1) underweight, not obesity, plays a major role in diabetes among the young; 2) eating too many sweets does not lead to diabetes; 3) almost all juvenile diabetics need insulin, and it is best to begin treatment in a hospital; 4) to avoid making a child bitter, some control should be sacrificed, e.g., diet breaks on birthdays...