Word: bypasser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stark and tortured portrait of Tokyo's historical red-light district after the occupation, the Japanese film Street of Shame, reaches toward the superb level of its predecessor Rashomon. Dealing with the highly controversial issue of legalized prostitution, it does not bypass cliches ("Does an unnecessary business last so long?"), nor does it resist the opportunity to moralize. Nevertheless cliches and moralizing inherently attach themselves to the problem, which Street of Shame approaches warily and with artistic detachment...
...Ercoupe and began flying. He became an airplane broker to satisfy other flyers' needs for planes, soon switched to being a dealer (adding five years to his age to impress customers). He got his first big chance after World War II when the Air Force decided to bypass preliminary trainers and begin fledgling flyers in North American AT-6s (advanced trainers). When other countries followed the U.S., a shortage developed, since North American had stopped making the planes. Ayer scoured the world for the ATs (he found 15 on an abandoned British airstrip in Southern Rhodesia), sold 252. plus...
Machines to bypass the heart and lungs during operations inside the heart vary widely because surgeons have pet preferences about details. Biggest difference is in how the blood is oxygenated: some machines bubble the oxygen through the blood, others spread the blood in a thin film over screens in an oxygen-filled chamber. Virtually all the machines are now driven by an electric motor pump, and many need a squad of physicians and technicians to keep an eye on them...
...National Association of Manufacturers, after discovering features objectionable to management in the bill, had flooded the House with "intemperate, exaggerated and misleading attacks." Speaker Rayburn chimed in to explain that he sat on the bill 41 days in hope of rounding up votes enough to suspend House rules and bypass Barden's committee. That gambit failed when the N.A.M. stirred up too many "noes...
...bypass is the only major seaway works in U.S. territory. Going upstream from Lake St. Francis, ships will move into the Wiley-Dondero Ship Channel, rise a total of 90 ft. in the Snell Lock and the Eisenhower Lock ("Ike's dike," in seaway slang), pass on into the new, still unnamed lake. At the western end of the lake, a 5-ft. lift in Ontario's Iroquois Lock will hoist westbound ships into the calm waters of the upper St. Lawrence for easy steaming upstream to Lake Ontario...