Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike the discharged marine in Hail the Conquering Hero, who posed as a hero to save his mother disappointment, Warrant Officer Sugino had behaved courageously enough. But he had fallen down on the job of dying. Like Hobson at Santiago, he ran a block ship into the harbor's mouth and sank it. Then a Chinese boat rescued...
...fastest-growing schools of therapy in the U.S. is based on pain-killing as the complete cure for many ills. Its chief method: a comparatively new technique of anesthesia known as "nerve block." Out last week was a new text (Conduction Anesthesia; Lippincott; $15) which held that nerve block is often the cure for sprains & fractures, hiccups, headaches, frostbite, sciatica, neuralgia, a score of other painful disorders...
...theory behind nerve block therapy: many ills and pains are aggravated and prolonged by blood vessel spasms. To stop the spasms, anesthetize the nerves that control them. Surgeons use two types of nerve-blocking injections: i) novocaine, a temporary anesthetic-designed to break up the spasm cycle; 2) alcohol, which stops pain permanently by destroying part of the nerve (a substitute for nerve-cutting). Some results...
Posing an immediate problem for the Committee was the laxity among class members in having their photographs taken, causing a stumbling block in the drive toward the normal publication date sometime in May. Loss than half the class has sat for a picture, the Committee reported...
...Herewith the block test (answers: 32 in the first group, 16 in the second) as TIME's Philadelphia engraver would have shown them if he had not dozed...