Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly Steeves felt a sharp explosion. The cockpit filled with smoke. Working methodically by the numbers from the training manual, he jettisoned his canopy, blew himself out by the ejection rig, pulled the cord on his parachute. Down, down he swayed toward the Sierra's peaks. Up, up they came in sharpness, ruggedness, meanness. He landed hard on a 12,000-ft.-high slope, spraining his ankles as he hit one of the few rocks in sight. Coolly he measured the stillness around him, took inventory of his assets: a .32-cal. revolver, a knife and some book matches...
Outboard Dugout. At a wharf in the Tutong River, a Dayak fisherman, the descendant of generations of headhunters, climbs into his primitive dugout canoe, glances at his stainless-steel Rolex wristwatch, yanks the starter cord on his Johnson outboard motor, and whooshes upstream in a spray of foam (in one year alone, more than 1,000 outboard motors were sold in Brunei). Farther along the river, a work crew of tattooed natives mix concrete for the pilings of a new bridge. There is money in their pockets for ice-cold Carlsberg beer, Lucky Strikes and Ronson cigarette lighters...
...Example: a lab assistant who took glassware out of a sterilizer developed blisters on his hands though he felt no heat on handling the bottles. Neurological examination showed no sense of heat or pain in his palms, but other senses were normal. Diagnosis: syringomyelia, a disease of the spinal cord. Its site was located because the neurologists knew that with only the hands affected, the trouble must be where sensory nerves from the palm reach the spinal cord...
...tradition, adopt those European ways that would not conflict with what was essential in the Moslem code. When his wife first became pregnant, he went to Paris to bring back a crib, diapers, sterilized bottles, baby scales and a French midwife, explaining: "I want my son's umbilical cord cut in the 20th century manner...
...Cord was not the only one to make a killing on the deal. The claims had been discovered in 1953 by a La Sal, Utah ranch foreman named Zeke Johnson, whose son Jimmy was one of Steen's first miners. Steen, short of cash, had asked Jimmy Johnson to find a camp cook, and Jimmy talked his mother into taking on the job. In return, Steen gratefully told the Johnsons to look over some promising rock formations ten miles north of Mi Vida. Zeke Johnson did, and staked out his claims. They were so promising that Cord...