Word: branch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this equipment the major risks were nonetheless run by the man on the operating table. The newest branch of surgery is now going a step further and requiring the whole operating team to undergo the hazards along with the patient. This fast-developing technique requires that operations be conducted with both patient and surgical team isolated in a sealed chamber under pressure up to seven times the earth's atmosphere. So successful have the results been to date that surgeons consider the risk worth taking-even for themselves-and already-crowded hospitals are now adding whole new combinations...
Four dozen foreign banking branches and offices now do business from Washington state to the Virgin Islands, the great majority of them in New York and California. Osaka's Sumitomo Bank opened its sixth California branch last year, and the Bank of Tokyo of California recently started its eighth and ninth branches. In Manhattan, the international banking center, the British have opened four major branches, the Swiss three, the French and Israelis two each, and the Italians, Dutch, Lebanese and Pakistanis one apiece. Last month Brazil's Banco da Lavoura de Minas Gerais opened up in Manhattan...
...cheered and cheered-until Tshombe was out of sight. Then, the gendarmes loaded their automatic rifles, cut the main roads into Kolwezi and held up the local branch of the Banque du Congo. From the vault they took an additional 30 million francs, then went out and got drunk. That night, as they slept it off in their boxcars, steam engines hissed up, locked on, and hauled them off to Kamina. Thus ended the long estrangement...
...Boeing's business. President William McPherson Allen. 64. the first aircraft executive to take a chance on commercial jets, believes that the company's real future lies in outer space. He has already begun preparing for other work at the firm's long-profitable Minuteman ballistic branch, which last week won the company two Government contracts totaling $21 million but is past its peak as a profitmaker. Boeing has also converted the defunct Dyna-Soar branch to space research, is in the running for a contract to build a manned orbiting laboratory, and is building...
...Goldwater's choice of words. In 1960, Nixon telegraphed his own sense of defeat when he began to adopt Kennedy's language, when he too insisted that America must move forward. Now it is Goldwater solemnly (and unconsciously) explaining the need for prudence and responsibility in the Executive branch...