Word: bended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...above and below the constriction. Dr. Newman made an inch-long cut in the aorta's wall and stitched in a plastic (Teflon) gusset, two-thirds of an inch wide at the base. This made the great artery a uniform width from the aortic valve to its big bend. Ro Anne's temperature hit a low of 77°, then a double electric shock restarted her heart. The pump-cooler was disconnected, and Ro Anne's chest was closed. For the first time in her life, her blood had a normal, unobstructed flow from her heart...
...automakers, the only one that has failed to benefit from the nation's current car-buying spree is the one that needs it most: South Bend's Studebaker Corp. With its sales for November running 13% below a year ago, harried Studebaker has seen its share of the U.S. auto market drop to a precarious 1.1%. Studebaker does not need to move a lot of autos to make a profit; in 1959, the year the Lark was introduced, the company earned $28.5 million on sales of 137,000 cars. But Studebaker is currently selling cars at an annual...
...could well sell 15,000 1963 Avantis, production has been held to fewer than 500 a month by the difficulties of getting the various parts of the car's fiber-glass body to fit snugly together. Egbert hopes soon to open an Avanti body assembly line in South Bend so as not to have to rely solely on an outside supplier to both make and assemble the body. Meantime, Studebaker dealers are swamped with Avanti orders they cannot fill...
...Millet himself protested that he could not understand how anybody could consider the French peasant "jolly," and today, seen afresh, the paintings justify his protests. He painted his peasants with brooding compassion, saw in them "true humanity, the great poetry," but the mood is somber rather than sentimental. They bend to their labors patiently but also hopelessly, condemned to struggle against stubborn nature day after day with hoe and pick...
...five times: New Jersey's $273,530 Garden State Stakes, richest horse race in the East, aboard George D. Widener's Crewman. Sent off by the bettors at 4-1, Crewman held the lead throughout the 1 1/16-mile race, romped to an easy six-length victory. Never Bend, the 1-2 favorite, finished a distant third. Shoemaker pocketed his 10% cut of the winner's $164,118 purse and went home to California for a vacation...