Word: chambered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What galled Lille was the frigid Gaullist disregard of the need for French industrial expansion-a common complaint of voters in last December's close presidential election. "The image of the industrial north as a self-sufficient, rich region is little more than a myth," complained a Chamber of Commerce speaker at the luncheon for De Gaulle. "The internationalizing of modern Europe should force France into relying on the few strong regions she possesses, giving them a better chance of catching up with the European industrial level. Due to their economic policies, Belgium and Holland have attracted a great...
...left auricle. Then he took the other tube and sewed it into a hole in the side of the aorta. At DeRudder's chest wall, the round plaque holding these tubes, together with smaller tubes for priming and flushing with saline solution, was attached to a hemispheric chamber 3 in. in diameter. Inside this was a Silastic diaphragm, which alternately generated pressure and exerted suction as it was worked to and fro by an external pump...
Pull & Push. Oxygenated blood from DeRudder's lungs then flowed normally into his left auricle. From there, up to 80% of it was drawn by suction into the pump chamber, held for an instant by a check valve, then pushed by the pressure of the pump's downstroke into the aorta, which supplies all the body's arteries. The rest took nature's course. It passed through the newly implanted artificial mitral valve into the ventricle, which continued to beat, and out into the aorta...
...standard in U.S. justice. The Bill of Rights-basically, the Constitution's first eight amendments-was written in the 18th century when there were no police forces. At the time, the trial itself was the critical confrontation between the state and the accused. Mindful of the British Star Chamber, the Constitution's framers ringed American trials with safeguards-almost none of which serve to protect the suspect from the time he is picked up by the police until days or even weeks later, when he appears before a judge...
...spectacularly eccentric, wooden-legged, oversexed son of Hetty Green, the miserly "Witch of Wall Street." For more than half a century, until his death in 1936, Green squandered about $3 million a year on stamp collecting, orchid culture, private railroad cars, teen-age girls, luxurious yachts and diamond-studded chamber pots. Green sometimes traveled with a battered Gladstone valise stuffed with $10,000 bills. Once when he was visiting Dallas, the president of the Security National Bank appealed to Green to help him stanch a run on the bank. Green counted 20 ten-grand notes out of his wallet...