Word: cords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four hours Neurosurgeon Paul Pitlyk and Orthopedist Kenneth Spence worked on the prone patient's cervical spine. They cut under the spinal cord, removed the tooth-shaped projection that hooks the second vertebra into the first just below the skull, and then deliberately fractured the two vertebrae...
...white spinal cord continued to pulsate regularly, but there was no assurance that Hoi Pham would ever move her limbs again - until the surgeons gave a sharp tweak to her left leg. It kicked up smartly...
...rebuilt Stagecoach has a passenger list roughly equivalent to the original's but the trip from Dryfork to Cheyenne through Sioux territory is dull going. Mostly, the air of mounting crisis is indicated by having the actors glare at one another. As the fugitive Ringo Kid, Alex Cord can barely squeak by in Wayne's roomy old boots. Cord looks bored, a reasonably sensible reaction to Ann-Margret's pastel flouncing in the painted-lady role defined for keeps by Claire Trevor. In case they don't know what they have missed, the cast ought...
...three days the marine tramped bootless through Viet Cong territory. Except to offer him food or water, Dodson's escort ignored him. By day his hands were bound in green nylon cord; at night he was tied hand and foot to a bamboo rack. Passing through villages, people turned out in droves to gape and offer water, candy, cigarettes and bananas. Only in a recently bombed hamlet were the villagers hostile, pushing close in an angry, chanting crowd until the chief arrived to disperse them. Four times, English-speaking Vietnamese appeared. Each asked Dodson's name and told...
Creativity Limitation. Such space-speak metaphors as "umbilical" (the cord connecting a space-walking astronaut to his craft) and "milk stool" (the arrangement of a missile's three rocket engines) are vital additions to the language, says McNeill. He is equally impressed by such metonyms as "eyeballs in" and "eyeballs out" (describing extreme conditions of acceleration and deceleration, respectively), and he approves of neologisms such as "rockoon" (a rocket launched from a balloon). Unfortunately, metaphors, metonyms and neologisms-and the creativity required to invent them-are limited. They constitute only about one-eighth of the entries in official NASA...