Word: cording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearest doctor is miles away. Before Baby Rufus was born, Father Rich shed quarts of perspiration over a handbook called If Baby Comes Ahead of the Doctor. Baby did. Father Rich tied the umbilical cord with a piece of old cord, expertly greased the infant. Said he: "After all the pistons I've oiled...
Cutting Connections. Purpose of the operation is to sever most of the nerve connections between the prefrontal lobes and the thalamus. The thalamus is lower, nearer the spinal cord. This part of the brain is widely believed to be the seat of emotions-fear, rage, lust, sorrow, other purely animal instincts. All animals have a thalamus, but the higher animals-above all, man-developed superimposed layers of brain tissue which exercise some control over the thalamus...
This bacterial disease, characterized by inflammation of the membranes enclosing the spinal cord and brain, flares up at irregular intervals, especially during wars. British cases soared from 1,500 in 1939 to a record 12,500 in 1940. In World War I the disease hit Army camps in the U.S., France and Britain. Relatively few (5,839) U.S. soldiers were stricken, but the disease gave Army doctors a disproportionate amount of trouble-as it is doing now. "Certain peculiarities of the disease-the apparent lack of interconnection between cases, the mysterious manner of spread .. . the ineffectiveness of control measures...
...testing the ship only 100 feet above the airport. Doolittle wangled the ailing plane to 300 feet and dropped out. His parachute broke his fall when he was ten feet off the ground. Then he walked around in circles, staring intently at the ground. "Looking for my rip cord," he explained. His elder son, Jimmy Jr., then ten years old, pointed to the wreckage and asked Jimmy Sr.: "We lose much in that, Pappy?" "About everything we've got," answered Jimmy Sr., poking calmly in the ruins...
Died. Laura Hope Crews, 62, veteran character actress; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. She spent most of her life playing the parts of bird-minded flibbertigibbets. She had a thwacking success in one serious role: the pathologically possessive mother in Sidney Howard's The Silver Cord. When sound came to the cinema she went to Hollywood, was flibberti-gibbety Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind. As one of the solicitous old poisoners in Arsenic and Old Lace she played her last part; she was the fourth famed character actress to die in five weeks (the others: Dame...