Word: doughnuts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doughnut Method. The operation (which, with variations, had been duplicated almost simultaneously in Boston and in Britain) "suddenly became too popular and was being done in practically every country hospital," says Bailey. In 1953 Detroit Surgeon Forest Dewey Dodrill convinced Bailey that his operation was still not good enough, and Bailey worked out improvements that are now widely used...
...auricles. The right auricle is bigger than it needs to be and is soft and pliable. So Bailey pressed the outer wall down over the septum, covering the hole in it, and joined the two together with a circular line of stitches. This made the right auricle into a doughnut-shaped chamber, with excellent results for the patient. Says Bailey with professional pride: "Technically, this is the best accomplishment I have to my credit, because it's so nearly perfect a procedure...
...main body of the machine will be housed underground in a large doughnut-shaped tunnel in the vicinity of the cyclotron, just north of the University Museum...
...travels, Stevenson shook many a hand, ate many a doughnut, seemed generally folksy despite occasional lapses into such polysyllabic gobbledygook as when, at Fergus Falls, he accused the Administration of "disingenuous dissembling" in its foreign policy...
When hurricanes are very young, they are still feeble, and there is at least a possibility that modern cloud-seeding methods (with dry ice or silver iodide particles) can keep them from forming an ordered, destructive doughnut. Full grown, a hurricane develops more energy in each second than several atomic bombs, and nothing can be done about it directly. But there is a possibility that a hurricane's symmetry can be damaged. If the rate of energy release in one quadrant of a hurricane can be increased or decreased, the storm may change its direction, perhaps missing by miles...