Word: diagramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last November that Dr. Montgomery and Navy Surgeon Robert Toohill embarked upon the first stage of restoring his speech. To make sure that Lopata's reconstructed windpipe would not let food into his lungs, they built an artificial valve just below the base of his tongue (see diagram) by cutting into his throat and turning two flaps of skin inward. Lopata had been breathing for a month through a hole lower down in his neck. The surgeons fitted this hole with a tube through which he could breathe, and made another opening above it in preparation for the next...
...etching or carving out a cavity at the point where the arms and base leg of a fluidic circuit meet (see diagram), fluidics engineers can prevent the power stream from clinging to either wall. Instead, it flows down the center of the Y and divides equally between the two outlets. In this "anti-Coanda" configuration, the application of a control jet merely deflects the power stream by an amount proportional to the intensity of the jet. As the output of the two legs varies with the strength of the control jet, the fluidic circuit is once more something...
...heart-attack history; nitrous oxide offered the advantage of inducing only light anesthesia, so that the patient wakes up with a minimum of hangover. Dr. Didier had to use an especially thin tube to leave room for what else had to go down the presidential throat: a laryngoscope (see diagram), 2.5 centimeters in diameter. Peering through the laryngoscope with the six-power operating-room microscope, Dr. Gould saw the polyp. It was a bit bigger (4 mm. by 5 mm.) than he had expected, and a bit lower down. Still, it was a simple though delicate procedure to work...
...Snorrason's design for an ideal chair for the average man lies halfway between the pew and the club chair (see diagram). It has a seat that slopes slightly downward toward the rear, and it has a back-supporting protruding pad five or six inches above the seat, in the small of the back. For most people, the front of the chair should be 17 to 18 inches high, and the seat 16 inches square. Because no one chair can be ideal for everyone, Dr. Snorrason suggested that the chair in which a man spends most of his time...
...fiddle with their traditional Thanksgiving menu. Julia is as patriotic as the rest, but she cannot resist giving her Thanksgiving a French accent. The turkey she and Paul will share with her sister-in-law in Bucks County, Pa., is called dindon demi-désossé (see diagram). To make it easier to carve, the upper part of the rib cage is removed before roasting. She plans to use a sausage and bread-crumb dressing (rough measurement is I cup of dressing for each pound of "bought weight"), recommends marinating the cut-up breast meat in cognac, shallots, salt...