Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After elaborate tests had shown that the blood-starved muscle was dependent on flow from a branch of the patient's left circumflex artery, Dr. Bailey opened the man's chest, snipped some ribs and put them aside, then slit open the heart sac. He was fortunate in being able to see the site of the 1953 shutdown where the left circumflex was embedded in the heart wall. Near the end of the artery he made a slit: instead of a spurt of blood, as there would have been in a healthy subject, he got a mere trickle...
...receive the ovation that greeted it. Meanwhile, Mitropoulos, silhouetted against the stage lights, was kneading, soothing, irritating, roiling his orchestra, bouncing around in the climaxes like a marionette on a string. With a start, Callas took the knife from the table, furiously plunged it into Scarpia's chest, then, her head waggling insanely, unable to look directly at the corpse, she placed the candles at his shoulders and made her getaway...
STEEL UNION REVOLT threatens United Steelworkers President David McDonald (TIME, July 9). Steelworkers have nominated rank-and-file slate to oppose top officers in union election in February. Rebels oppose monthly dues hike from $3 to $5 to fatten union's strike war chest (now at $21 million) and pay boosts to McDonald (from $40,000 to $50,000) and other staffers...
...communities Jewish leaders work through community-chest-type funds to supply such Israeli needs as the feeding, clothing and resettlement of immigrants (with some 10% of funds going to such U.S. work as fighting anti-Semitism). The Israeli Jewish Agency, which gets 85% to 90% of the contributions from the U.S. through the big United Jewish Appeal, estimates that more than 4,000 immigrants enter Israel each month, that the country needs about $1,000 to keep one new immigrant for one year, or $15,000 to resettle a family of five over a three-year period...
...Conclusive identification: a funnel-chest deformity, analysis of teeth and fillings...