Word: walkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...straight and could not be bent; her hips were bent and frozen. Last year, aged 25, Angelina was taken to the arthritis clinic at Manhattan's superbly equipped Hospital for Special Surgery. There she scored near zero on the ADL (activities of daily living) test: she could not walk, dress or feed herself, comb her hair, or go to the bathroom alone...
...remolded the ends. To keep them from growing together again, they slipped in a layer of tissue from Angelina's own thigh. Such a knee joint is flexible but not very stable. To make sure that Angelina would not fall in a heap when she tried to walk, the surgeons cut through the bone of the left knee, straightened it, then let it heal in the extended position. They used traction and casts on her hips, made new joints for her elbows. Angelina's muscles, atrophied from disuse, were strengthened by exercises in the swimming pool (the buoyancy...
...Walk Like a Girl. As the eager, unlettered Billie Dawn of Born Yesterday, Mary sashayed through her first comedy role without a live audience, and, as before with Peter Pan, gave one of the rare performances of the TV season. With a mincing, floozy strut, she sparkled (with $1,000,000 worth of Harry Winston jewels, two Maximilian minks and five Main-bocher originals) through that hilarious old gin-rummy game, and asked a visiting U.S. Senator's wife: "You want to wash your hands or anything, honey?" She also marked the beginning of her social awakenings by defining...
...says Mary, "in Texas, Ohio or anywhere in the world. My biggest difficulty was getting my accent back-after struggling 16 years-to lose it." Mary also had trouble getting her elfin feet back on the ground. "After all those flat-footed roles, I'd forgotten how to walk like a girl. I didn't get that Monroe slouch-which ain't bad, honey-but I don't know...
...work, pointed out the escape hatches, explained the ditching procedure (fasten safety belts securely, rest head on pillow on the knees, cross wrists behind legs, grasp each ankle from the front). Passengers discarded their shoes (the women took off stockings so they would not slip if they had to walk on a wing), got rid of sharp objects (e.g., fountain pens, tie clasps), shouldered their way into life jackets. One woman tore the crucifix from her rosary, kept the beads...