Word: bulleting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bullet fans are equally sold on Unseld. As formidable as Monroe is flashy, the former University of Louisville All-America has been commanding the backboards as though the taller men in the league were merely bystanders. In a recent game against the Lakers, he grabbed 27 rebounds to Wilt Chamberlain's 21. Two weeks ago, against the Boston Celtics, he hauled down 27 to Bill Russell's 14. Off the defensive boards, Unseld gloms onto the ball and rockets it to half court so quickly that the Bullets' chief offensive threat this season is their headstart fast...
...patient opened his mouth, he thought of taking off his glasses to avoid looking at the steel glint in the dentist's eyes. But before he could, the rapid-fire, machine-gun-bullet orgasms of pain were exploding in his jaw. Jab! Jab! Jab! The patient jammed his eyes shut. His whole body was tight, as time after time he felt the needle piercing deep into his gums, driving its payload of novocaine into his bloodstream. "Just relax," he heard the nurse saying. The injections were done. He slumped back into the chair...
...Barrios, a California cook, seemed to be making a remarkable recovery. The shooting occurred early in October, when robbers held up the restaurant where Barrios worked. Doctors at San Jose's O'Connor Hospital patched up his abdominal flesh wound, removed most of a shattered .22-cal. bullet from his brain, leaving him with only a slight headache and blurred vision. At that point, follow-up X rays sent Barrios into a spin for-dear life...
...pictures showed that a tiny fragment of the bullet was wandering about in his ventricles, the fluid-containing cavities deep inside the brain. When Barrios lay flat on his back, the fragment stayed in an upper ventricle. When he stood up, it went into a smaller, lower ventricle. When he lay down again, it tended to drift back up. The great danger was that it would get stuck in the narrow passage between the ventricles, thereby cutting off the fluid that drains into the spinal canal, and causing fatal pressure within Barrios' skull...
...former Air Force flight surgeon, recalled that centrifuges-the contraptions that spin pilots and astronauts in order to test their reaction to the pull of extra gravity-had occasionally been used in delicate eye operations. He wondered if the same process might not be used to force the bullet fragment within Barrios' brain into a safe spot in the soft tissue surrounding the upper ventricle. Lippe took the problem to NASA's nearby Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, where tests were made by whirling a bullet fragment through gelatin of approximately the brain's consistency. Researchers...