Word: ear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perforated eardrum membranes are usually repaired by sophisticated surgical techniques. But Dr. Eugene Derlacki, an ear surgeon at Northwestern University's medical school believes a simpler procedure may be just as effective. He first applies trichloroacetic acid to the edges of the perforation to irritate them, thus beginning the healing process. Then through the perforation, he blows antibiotic powders into the ear canal behind the eardrum to prevent infection. Finally, he presses a thin antiseptic-soaked gauze patch against the eardrum and sends the patient home with instructions to put antiseptic drops into his ear twice daily. The cotton...
Though the astronauts were queasy in their first hours back on earth, they have since developed a higher than usual resistance to motion sickness. The curious phenomenon is apparently connected with the prolonged exposure to zero-G of the balance mechanism in the inner ear-a tolerance that the doctors believe will soon disappear...
...Camp David), would be appropriate for Nixon, or should the Soviets build something new along the lines of Camp David? Kissinger, who has stayed at Zavidova, thought the quarters were just fine. But at the White House dinner, Brezhnev sent his interpreter over to whisper in Kissinger's ear, asking if he thought the Soviet leader could tell Mrs. Nixon, his dinner companion, about the cottage...
...doomed by the fierce opposition of white suburbanites, Deffet argues, then there should be federal housing subsidies paid directly to the poor to allow them to compete with everyone else for available private housing. Many of Deffet's industry colleagues over the years have either turned a deaf ear or become angry at his views. Now developers generally tend to listen to Deffet because of his track record. "The only way to be a spokesman," he says, "is to show people that you are successful...
Looping and chopping its way through the repertory of shorthand for the human face and figure that he himself had developed decades before, Picasso's brush encountered no resistances. The twisting and displacement of a torso or an ear, the mock-cubist overlapping and profiling related to nothing except earlier paintings that he had made but seemed to have half forgot ten. The drama of assimilation, of that prehensile eye clawing at the world's very guts, dissolved. He ran out of subjects and fell back as never before on stock dummies - troglodytic clowns and kidney-profiled women...