Word: extention
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...will be able to judge the extent of our success in helping the elderly live meaningful lives by watching this index of their misery...
...voice masking helps the stutterer is as much a mystery as the causes of stuttering itself. Until the sixth year, all children stutter to some extent, repeating themselves an average of 45 times in every 1,000 words. The tolerant parent either smiles indulgently at these apprentice mistakes or else takes no notice of them. Occasionally, however, the child is repeatedly commanded to talk straight. Some experts theorize that misguided attempts at discipline make the stutterer...
Fetishist. McMahon's novel suffers from problems of technique and plotting. Timmy reads minds and recounts the distant intimate activities of others to an extent that damages credibility. Melodrama intervenes at too strategic moments: a convenient suicide wraps up one subplot, a scientist loses his wallet and laundry with cosmic consequences, an offstage Russian turns out to be a sex fetishist rather than...
...what extent is Z an accurate portrayal of affairs in Greece? According to its director, Greek Exile Constantin Costa-Gavras, it is based throughout on "real facts." Up to a point, he is right. The movie faithfully re-creates an incident in 1963 when a leading left-wing deputy, Grigorios Lambrakis, was struck and killed by a pickup truck after addressing a rally in Salonica. As in the film, the death was first labeled an accident, but a tenacious prosecutor gathered enough evidence to show two right-wing thugs had been hired by police to commit the deed...
...promising use of thermography is in medicine. By spotting unusual temperature changes on the skin, doctors have been able to locate tumors, detect symptoms foreshadowing strokes, explore the extent of arthritic inflammation, gauge the severity of burns. If human skin is too warm, it may well mean increased metabolic activity and blood temperature underneath it, one of the signs of a malignancy. Cold skin may indicate dead tissue, as in severe burns, or reduced blood circulation, a clue to circulatory blockages...