Word: diagramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressure vessel will inflate a pair of winglike spars made of heat-resistant woven-wire cloth. As the wings expand, the cylinder will split, forming a heat shield that will protect the leading edges of the wings. The inflated lifeboat will be an air-and space-worthy paraglider (see diagram...
...buttock. This, he insists, is not to be confused with the whole buttock, which has a lot of fatty tissue lower down. Doctors have a traditional trick for picking the place for the needle. They draw two imaginary lines, one vertical and one horizontal, on the buttock (see diagram) and make the injection into the upper, outer quadrant. But this is risky, says Dr. Hanson, because people are not all built alike, and if the needle goes in a little too close to the midline of the body, it may hit the sciatic nerve...
...undistinguished buildings. Yamasaki has escaped this tyranny (and yet preserved his reputation for economical construction) by adopting or devising with his favorite engineer, John Skilling of Seattle, up-to-date ways of using concrete, a basically cheap material. Prestressing and precasting strong columns, girders and large wall sections (see diagram) has freed many of his buildings from the limitations of structural steel or poured-on-the-job concrete. The chance to get sun-andshadow patterns by repeatedly casting structural parts in the same sculptured mold gives Yamasaki's architecture much of its embellishment. And he uses various devices, typically...
...Bark & New. What is generally agreed is that the most primitive emotions and reactions, such as hunger and sex drives, are experienced in the hypothalamus (see diagram). In general, the higher the functions, the higher their seats in the brain-rising through the thalami and their branches, and the basal ganglia, to the paleocortex ("old bark"), which man shares with the higher animals...
...brakes and was hit from behind. My car started to spin and was hit on the right front fender. That spun it back a ways, and it was hit a third time, on the left front fender. It was bouncing around like a rubber ball." The accident-report diagram, said a state highway patrol lieutenant, looked "like somebody took a bunch of dominoes and just threw them down. The cars are pointed every which way. and at least a third of them are pointed back where they came from...