Word: circularity
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...radical approach of calling a halt to the perpetual merry-go-round that surprises the economists. The present method of circular borrowing-to-repay-borrowing would probably accomplish almost equivalent results to those of the new scheme, which is, in essence, to stop all borrowing and repayment...
...this circular, Vincent Scully, associate professor of the History of Art at Yale called the Robie House "an intrinsic expression of a peculiarly American culture. It is the culmination," he said, "of a full century of American attempts to find symbolic expression for some of the most deeply felt American myths and urgings...
...draw them tight. Another tourniquet went around the right subclavian artery. With a needle holder like a long, slender pair of pliers, Bailey dipped his needle lightly in and out of the wall of the right auricle, drawing only a few drops of blood as he made two circular (purse-string) sutures. "Suction." An assistant dipped a glass-tipped rubber tube, attached to a vacuum pump, into the heart bed, drew out the spilled blood. With fine team coordination, Bailey made a small cut in the auricle wall; one assistant slid a plastic tube through it into the lower great...
...operation to close a hole in the wall between the auricles. The right auricle is bigger than it needs to be and is soft and pliable. So Bailey pressed the outer wall down over the septum, covering the hole in it, and joined the two together with a circular line of stitches. This made the right auricle into a doughnut-shaped chamber, with excellent results for the patient. Says Bailey with professional pride: "Technically, this is the best accomplishment I have to my credit, because it's so nearly perfect a procedure...
...fair heroine falls in love with a customer, a well-educated anti-Fascist and she is to bear him a child. This affair ends in bleak and bloody despair. She wanders off into the darkness, saying that she will devote her life to her child, a sort of circular statement connecting with the words her mother spoke to her, implying that this is the circle of life and always will...