Word: cuff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuff have had a fight...
...cause Cuff's wee niece stayed out all night...
...want them to go." Ike's reasoning invited a second question: Was the U.S. preparing to bring China trade controls in line with less stringent controls on trade with the Soviet sphere of Europe? Always unwilling to announce policy shifts by way of off-the-cuff press-conference remarks, the President hedged. But behind a noncommital answer lay a surprising...
...witness before the McClellan committee wore monogrammed silk shirts and tailor-made suits that followed more after George Raft than Brooks Brothers. As he gestured with his carefully manicured hands, he flashed gold cuff links. His handsome face was bronzed by many a day spent under the sun at Santa Anita, Tanforan and Bay Meadows. Only his slightly cauliflowered left ear betrayed the past of Frank William Brewster, 60, West Coast boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, as a brick-fisted mug. The story of the first phase of the McClellan committee's investigation is the story...
...anesthetized patient on the operating table was a man of 50 whose heart had been seriously damaged by rheumatic fever. Electrodes taped to his ankles and wrists led to an electrocardiograph screen. He had a blood pressure cuff on the left arm, and the usual tube down the wind pipe, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder. Surgeon Bailey-scrubbed and all but mummified in sterile gear-stepped up to the table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then...