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Even routine activities like brushing teeth or reflex actions like sneezing and coughing can knock the back out of whack. The horror stories abound. In Alexandria, Va., Anne Moffett, 37, a mother of three, found herself stricken while bending over to make a bed: "Minutes passed, but I was too terrified to straighten up, even to withdraw my hands from the covers. Finally my mother came and coaxed me, inch by painful inch, into...
...they are strained beyond their limit, they rebel. An overtaxed muscle suddenly goes into a sustained contraction, or spasm. It becomes a hard, knotty mass. The tiny blood vessels that bring it oxygen and nourishment and carry off wastes constrict. Soon some of the cells in the stricken muscle die, and the body sends out a distress signal in the form of a sharp pain...
...through their black robes as they marched to their seats. At the graduation rehearsal earlier that morning, Ethelind Elbert Austin '30 recalls, one of the matrons had informed the anxious group of Radcliffe seniors that, after eating some spoiled dormitory food the previous evening, serveral young women had been stricken with upset stomachs. The graduation caps, the matron suggested, would make convenient containers during the afternoon ceremony. Fortunately, all the caps stayed pinned to the graduates' heads. And the Radcliffe Class of '30, the 47th class to graduate from that college, crossed the platform to shake President Comstock's hand...
...give federalism another chance," then that opportunity must not be squandered. Trudeau cannot allow the focus of constitutional discussion to center on the oil-rich West--more specifically, on the booming province of Alberta, which has not shown any inkling of wanting to share its wealth with poverty-stricken regions such as the Maritimes. Many Albertans hoped for a Levesque victory last week, feeling it would facilitate their claims for greater provincial autonomy...
Like a pilot bailing out of a flaming aircraft and then waiting terror-stricken to see if his parachute will open, American businessmen and economists hung impatiently last week trying to see how deep the recession of 1980 would go. Just about everybody agrees by now that the nation is in a slump, yet no one knows whether plummeting interest rates, soaring unemployment and lethargic consumer spending foretell an economic decline that will be brief or prolonged, shallow or deep...