Word: lumbar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough eleven-pointer: Name the five groups of bones in the human spinal column (see diagram). A onetime pre-med student, Snodgrass began with a noun, "sacrum," was ruled out by M.C. Jack Barry, whose answer card listed the adjective "sacral." Then Bloomgarden ticked off "sacral," "cervical," "thoracic," "lumbar" and "coccyx," was abruptly ruled correct and the winner of the $73,500 at stake...
...walk as he enters a room. It is' noticeable in the flash-like speed in which he moves from sitting to striding in the middle of an interview. It is noticeable in a meeting when, with youthful effortlessness, he swings from a low slouch (pressure on third lumbar) to bolt upright...