Word: cording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...injury soldiers are most appalled by is severance of the spinal cord. In World War I it meant almost certain death; the few who lived were hopelessly paralyzed. Since D-day in Normandy, more than 1,000 U.S. soldiers have suffered this injury. But most of them are still alive, and some are walking...
From Saudi Arabia came the only royalty. Prince Faisal, son of King Ibn Saud, wore a snow-white burnoose and golden head cord, maintained Mohammedan sobriety, but was not above spending an evening with his delegation at the circus in New York...
...wore a pepper & salt wig decidedly too small for him. Rockefeller asked him the population of Spain. When Santayana replied 19 million, the old man said thoughtfully, "I must tell them at the office that they don't sell enough oil in Spain." When Strong bought a cord of wood, Rockefeller studied it in the basement, and said, "Charles . . . that isn't a cord of wood. When I was a young fellow I used to cut a cord of wood and I know what it looks like...
...recording set the size of a folding camera, completely "built-in" save for a mike on a cord, has joined the parade of postwar dream-gadgets for the civilian. Powered by a battery, the recorder weighs only three pounds, picks up "anything the ear can hear." Inventor Marvin Camras of Chicago's Armour Research Foundation thinks "the average price ought to be about...
...Augustus Goetz; produced by Jed Harris) concerns a middle-aged widower and his daughter (Frank Conroy & Constance Cummings) who run an art gallery. Attractive and sought after, the girl is indifferent to other men because she is pathologically attached to her father. The father tries to cut the cord between them; the girl holds tight...