Word: abdomen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This is like Dieppe," said dazed ex-War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds, 59, after a visit to Manhattan's jam-packed Peppermint Lounge to view the nation's newest dance craze, the abdomen-wrenching Twist. "I'm glad I was there, but I don't ever want to go again...
...implantation is done in one operation. Surgeon Chardack opens the chest to get the electrode into the heart wall and leads the connecting wire through a tunnel under the skin to another incision in the abdomen, just to the left of the navel. He sets the pacemaker on a bed of abdominal muscle. Only 2 by 3 by ½ in., it is so compact that the patient can bend double without feeling it. The battery should last four to five years, and failure is not fatal. The heart jogs along until the battery is replaced...
...sentimental about all kinds of animals, but she is a realist, and pet lions do not eat canned cat food). Elsa's life in the bush did not affect her extraordinary trust of Mrs. Adamson; the author tells, for instance, of being allowed to feel the lioness' abdomen during the pregnancy, and records that Elsa often would stay in camp for a day or two at a time, while her exasperated mate roared for her in the bush...
...Elias, 27, supposedly betook herself to Manhattan's Bowery where, for $5, she got herself tattooed with her name and social security number (023-22-9834). Alleged reason: "In this day of possible large-scale disaster, all of us should wear identification." Alleged site of identification: the lower abdomen. Explained the sultry singer, as her pressagent showed unconcealed delight: "I couldn't think of a more inconspicuous place...
...difficulties are far greater with mammals. To get a germfree line started, researchers have to deliver germfree young by Caesarean section. Just before the pregnant animal would normally deliver, it is anesthetized, strapped to a miniature operating table, and its abdomen shaved and sterilized. Two sterilized tanks are prepared and connected by a sterile tunnel. The animal is slipped into the operating tank. A surgeon puts his hands in the rubber gauntlets that are sealed into portholes in the tank's sides. A set of sterile instruments is already in place. He delivers the young, drops them into...