When you have multiple spinal compression fractures, your spine will change a lot. Part of your vertebrae may collapse because the cracks mean it canât support the weight of your spine. That can affect how your body works. Height loss. With each fracture of a spinal bone, the spine gets a little bit shorter.
Making the world better, one answer at a time. Students in Wayland, Massachusetts founded SADD, which stood for Students Against Driving Drunk (to emphasize personal responsibility for the issue), in 1981, after the back-to-back deaths of two popular hockey players in impaired driving crashes.
Slang sense of inferior, pathetic is from 1899; sad sack is 1920s, popularized by World War II armed forces (specifically by cartoon character invented by Sgt. George Baker, 1942, and published in U.S. Armed Forces magazine Yank), probably a euphemistic shortening of common military slang phrase sad sack of shit.