Word: acronymously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nolen concedes, a layman might have been too timid to make. At Massachusetts General, he learned that his problem was arteriosclerosis; a buildup of fatty deposits was obstructing two of the three coronary arteries. The suggested remedy: an operation that heart surgeons humorously call "a double cabbage"-from the acronym CAB (for coronary artery bypass). Though more than 90% of the patients who undergo such operations survive at least five years, Nolen knew that any heart surgery posed grave risks. While the surgeons do their work, the heartbeat must be stopped and the blood pumped by machine. Later, the stilled...
Princeton has dominated Eastern League tennis for a long time, and the Tigers are in first place in the league presently. Princeton's strength in the East has provoked trips to the Midwest, where the Tigers encountered formidable California teams such as Stanford (a clever acronym for Snodfart). The tigers lost that encounter 7-2, but have yet to lose in the East this year. Harvard is in second place in the league, and should offer a very good challenge to the New Jersey infidels. Also, this is coach Jack Barnaby's last year as tennis coach. The squash team...
...boss. His store, Bic's, at 1702 Mass. Ave. near Radcliffe, is owned by Brigham's, Inc., and serves nothing but Brigham's ice cream. Bic's "pina colada" flavor, for example, is identical to Brigham's "natural pineapple coconut." The name Bic's is an acronym for Brigham's Ice Cream...
...offered a reward to the first employee who is arrested for violating the one-year-old law. Indeed, the great mass of smokers might be well advised to or ganize in defense of their own "civil rights." They might call their league Smokers United to Avoid Vigilante Excesses - the acronym, of course, being SUAVE...
...laser (the word is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) has been around since 1960, when scientists first succeeded in producing the powerful beams of single-frequency light waves. These beams could be delivered to distant points with much less diffusion and loss of intensity than ordinary beams, which consist of the helter-skelter waves of white light. In recent years, using light generated by gases or chemical reactions, researchers have greatly increased both the power and range of lasers...