Word: arme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pedicle flaps from the arm are sometimes attached to the stump of a partly destroyed nose as the first step in its reconstruction. They are then severed from the arm. This gives the patient a "trunk" several inches long. One man disappeared after this stage of the operation, did not show up again for years. Then he explained: he had made a living in a circus sideshow as "the elephant man." With the flap tailored as planned, the nose looked normal...
...Horse's Mouth, written when he was 54, first brought him broad recognition as a major writer, who worked to the end despite a rare, fatal nerve disease which struck (1954) and progressively paralyzed him; in Oxford, England. Propped up in his wheelchair or bed, with his arm supported by a rope, his pen tied to his hand, he faced death calmly, worked until his limbs were useless, then dictated until his power of speech was gone...
...twelve-state Midwestern empire. Moreover, he was in a position of deadly challenge to the Teamsters' aging (62) International President Dave Beck. Hoffa had run up a list of arrests, e.g., for brawling in a picket line, that he smilingly admitted was "as long as your arm." Even so, nearly everyone in organized labor figured that he was too smart to get into the sort of trouble that would halt his drive for Beck's job. Last week he was in just that sort of trouble...
...anesthetized patient on the operating table was a man of 50 whose heart had been seriously damaged by rheumatic fever. Electrodes taped to his ankles and wrists led to an electrocardiograph screen. He had a blood pressure cuff on the left arm, and the usual tube down the wind pipe, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder. Surgeon Bailey-scrubbed and all but mummified in sterile gear-stepped up to the table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then...
...leading off a debate on the subject in the current Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "The responsibility that goes with the press's privileged position is that of serving as an objective chronicler, watchdog, critic, and independent or extralegal check," says he. By holding "at arm's length" all requests for staffers to serve on charitable, civic and government boards, the Post has found that reporters' "criticism is sharper, the praise is less inhibited and carries a greater impact. And the news about the agencies stays clean...