Word: rigidities
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...Rigid but Sore-Free. It was sheer good fortune that the broken vertebrae were in the lumbar region and did not damage the end of the spinal cord-a far less serious situation than if they had been in the cervical or thoracic areas, where the cord might have been severed by dislocation of the bones. A break of any of the cervical vertebrae could have paralyzed Teddy's body from the neck down, while a fracture of any of the twelve thoracic vertebrae might well have paralyzed his trunk or legs...
...bulk. Named for the Houston surgeon who devised it in 1939 for recuperating back-fracture patients, the Foster frame is a kind of reversible bed in which the patient is immobilized between a pair of sturdy canvas slings. Besides keeping the spine rigid-which is absolutely essential during the bone-healing period-the Foster frame helps prevent the patient from getting bedsores...
Justice Tom Clark, joined by Justices Harlan and White in dissenting, was puzzled. "Which Communist Party member is worthy of trust?" he asked. "Since the party is a secret, conspiratorial organization subject to rigid discipline by Moscow, the Congress merely determined that it was not wise to take the risk which foreign travel by Communists entailed...
...gamma rays returned some of the atoms that had already decaved to the excited state once more. Then these atoms had to repeat the decaying process, thus lengthening the average radioactive life of the original group of excited atoms by as much as 3%-a startling violation of the rigid rule...
From then on, the weapons chosen range from flotsam and jetsam to pure slapstick. Director Jack Cardiff is at his most ingenious in a triumphal march that turns out to be an ambush-long avenues of Moorish troops stand at rigid attention, each with a quick viking blade at his back. In the subsequent melee, even the lovely Schiaffino is impaled on a lance the size of a mizzenmast. Though such wounds are invariably mortal, they never seem the least bit serious. And that is probably what keeps Ships from going under...