Word: bents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first human trials of the new technique, at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, five patients in severe shock, with catastrophically low blood pressure and with little chance of survival, have been hooked up to the pump. The operation is relatively simple, requiring only an incision in an arm artery, for pressure measurements, and one in the femoral artery for the counterpulse pump tube...
Professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon in chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Dr. Moore is the nation's-perhaps the world's-outstanding authority on the vital importance of "electrolyte balance" in preserving life (TIME, Oct. 6,1952). The balance is usually expressed simply in terms of sodium salt solutions v. potassium salt solutions in the blood. But recent years' work has shown that it is far more complex than that...
Author Fielding is bent on proving that it is better to have loved and lost, like John, than always to win, like David. A handsome, if somewhat tarnished ornament of the Anglican clergy, David believes in the laying on of hands, at least with female communicants. But David's way is strewn with obstacles, the most formidable of which is his Godfearing, hot-tempered mother, who tries to purge him of lechery through prayer, threats, and maternal tantrums. David's sin is diagnosed by a saintly monk as a "fear of fear." In the end, what finishes David...
...early dusk at Trung Lap, U.S. Captain Edward Nidever, a West Pointer, was bent over a chess game. Comfortably dressed against the heat in shorts and sneakers, Nidever was about to move a pawn when the humid silence was broken by an outburst of rifle fire. "The Civil Guard's catching hell again," said Nidever as he slung an ammunition belt across a bare shoulder, grabbed a carbine and headed for the door...
Collected Poems, by Robert Graves. The bent-nosed Jove of Majorca is no Yeats or Eliot, but he can outdistance these masters in evoking the moods of love, childhood or the classic past. In his own right, he is an impressive poet, truer to his passions than to the literary fashions of his time...