Word: chested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 1951 an embittered Palestinian refugee waylaid old King Abdullah as he went to pray at Jerusalem's sacred Mosque of the Rock. There was a clatter of shots and the stouthearted old King fell dead. One of the assassin's bullets ripped a medal from the chest of 15-year-old Hussein as he walked beside his grandfather. It was a deed that Hussein can never let himself forget...
...pressure rose, Biller massaged Smith's spastic muscles and chest. Outside the chamber, doctors watched carefully, consulted over the intercom with Biller, felt new hope when Smith regained consciousness for a few moments. Soon Diver Smith's wife and two sons arrived, agonizingly watched the rescue work through the chamber windows. The frantic minutes dragged by: the decompression cycle began. For eight hours and 40 minutes, Bill Biller worked desperately. Then, thrashing in gasping spasms before the anguished and horrified eyes of his wife, Eldon Smith died...
...meeting U.S. imports: Wabash Cannonball, Frankie and Johnny, I Shall Not Be Moved. The musicians generally are amateurs, paid with coffee and Cokes, belting out their rockabilly on a couple of guitars, a banjo and a bass fiddle (sometimes store-bought, more often conjured out of an empty tea chest, a broomstick and a knotted string...
Some surgeons frankly doubted whether Beck's operation did any good. Others noted that after any surgery in the chest, the heart sac was likely to become irritated (and therefore develop better circulation), so they argued that Beck could do as much good simply by opening the chest, looking at the heart and closing it up again. Recently, Beck has amassed figures which make a good case for his operation: out of 100 consecutive cases, 90% are alive after six months to five years (far more than could have been expected without surgery), and 50% are well enough...
Another coronary operation, as practiced by Washington's Hufnagel, involves cutting and tying off both mammary arteries-the chest wall can get along without their blood supply-and thus shunt their contents over into the coronaries. Hufnagel hit on this theory by chance when, during different cardiac operations, mammary arteries were cut accidentally, and patients made better recoveries. Hufnagel has been doing this type of operation for years, is still patiently compiling data on his patients' progress before making claims of its effectiveness. Virtually the same operation, though done in execution of a different theory, attracted wide...