Word: cataract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lens implants bring better vision to cataract patients...
This is welcome news for the aged, for whom cataract removal is one of the most common operations, and one of the most ancient. Cataracts can, of course, form at any stage in life as a result of injury, inflammation or disease, and may even be present at birth. But they are, like wrinkles and gray hair, most commonly a natural byproduct of the aging process. The normal lens of the eye, located behind the iris, consists of clear protein encased in a capsule. Cataracts are changes in the molecular structure of the lens protein that cause it to lose...
Ball's troubles are far from over. He is also fighting a suit brought by Mills to have him ousted as trustee. Mills charges that Ball, who has suffered four heart attacks and undergone two cataract operations, is not physically up to the job. Mills and Dent also criticize Ball's urge to go on expanding the estate by putting so much of its earnings back into the trust's varied enterprises and not enough into charity. They insist the will stipulates that earnings from the estate be used to aid the crippled children of Delaware...
...finals of the U.S. Clay Court Championships last fall, preventing him from hearing any of the linesmen's calls. He still won, 6-0, 6-0, beating Sam Shore, 71. Bitsy Grant, 66, a member of the U.S. Davis Cup team in the mid-1930s, has had cataract operations on both eyes, and wears sunglasses and a sun visor on the court. But none of the ailments of the Super-Seniors is as celebrated as that of L. Roe Campbell, 77, secretary-treasurer of the organization, who three years ago faced surgery to lock his right wrist in place...
...particularly awesome beast, at least in Bartram's description: "Behold him rushing from the flags and reeds. His enormous body swells. His plaited tail, brandished high, floats upon the lake. The waters like a cataract descend from his opening jaws. Clouds of smoke issue from his dilated nostrils. The earth trembles with his thunder." Nonetheless, when Bartram's cockleshell of a boat was attacked by a giant alligator on a Florida lake, the naturalist beat at it with a club "until he withdrew sullenly and slowly into the water, looking at me and seeming neither fearful...