Word: triggers
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...separating the two lowest lumbar vertebrae and the one separating the last lumbar from the sacrum, the next lowest region of the spine. The dislocated material often pushes against the spinal nerves, which are extremely sensitive to any pressure. The slightest movement, even a laugh, can trigger an excruciating wave of pain...
...instance was Norman Cousins' Anatomy of an Illness (Norton; $9.95). More in elation than in anger, the former editor of the Saturday Review recounted his battle against a disease of the spinal tissue that physicians had pronounced irreversible. Cousins ignored them. If stress and other negative emotions could trigger illness, he reasoned, positive emotions might restore health. The patient treated himself medically with ascorbic acid and emotionally with laughter-inducing joke books and reruns of Marx brothers movies. Not exactly what the doctor ordered, but it worked...
...whole. The central government has deliberately pursued a policy of relative permissiveness toward Islamic culture, which unites about 43 million Soviet citizens, nearly one-sixth of the total population. Since Lenin's time, the Kremlin has been sensitive to the danger that heavyhanded atheistic propaganda and cultural repression might trigger a replay of the 1916 Muslim revolts that broke out against the Tsar in Central Asia. With Islamic militancy embroiling the Soviet Union...
Reviving the draft, moreover, would certainly trigger widespread opposition. Even Jimmy Carter's modest and sound proposal to register 18-year-olds for potential, though certainly not imminent, military service set off college demonstrations. Few politicians would risk supporting a draft today, and even if there were political support the draft debate could divide the nation and thus weaken its military credibility and determination in the eyes of the world. This would undermine one of the goals that restoring the draft was intended to achieve...
...contrast, Mark Dolson's heart is on fire for the Lord, and a fresh blaze it is. He has a trigger-lipped contempt for clerical authority. He believes that women and gays should be admitted to the priesthood. He loathes "consumerism" and, worst of all, has a fervent conviction that the words of Jesus, once heard and acted upon, will render the church redundant...