Word: earlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closing seconds of the round. Robertson uncorked what had become the trademark of Harvard boxers--a combination jab, cross and hook followed by an inside right counter. The last blow landed under Well's ear and sent the bewildered Cadet spinning to the canvas for his first collegiate defeat...
Died. Dr. Guido Guida, 71, Sicilian ear-nose-and-throat specialist who in 1935 founded the International Radio Medical Center (CIRM) in Rome, which provides assistance for ships at sea that lack doctors, has radioed remedies and even emergency surgical instructions for some 40,000 ailing seamen; of cancer; in Rome...
...tall and her hair was long and smooth--a light shade of brown. She had French blood, but her soft voice whispered the South. It was slightly dry and fell mighty easy on the ear. Her walk was a little awkward; she was young and protected. I liked that, because I had reached the point where I could prize someone who didn't know what I was going to say before I said it, someone to talk to who would surprise with her reactions--because she was innocent. Maybe I could tell her a little of what was waiting...
...Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center have helped to develop a magnetic probe that will swim through the arterial labyrinth and tell the neurologist what he needs to know. At Harvard, surgeons practice knifeless surgery with a proton gun that destroys overactive tissue deep inside the skull. At Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, ophthalmic surgeons turn patients upside down to let gravity help them in repositioning a detached retina...
...this first novel Russell Greenan shows descriptive powers as impressive as his unsettling story is fanciful. He has an odd ear for uneven sounds. Describing a man's chuckle, for example, he writes: "It sounded as if someone down inside his throat was crumpling a paper bag." In real life, Greenan is a devoted student and connoisseur of art, which may partly explain his remarkable success at supporting raving fantasy and very real suspense in a single story. With painterly sleight of hand, he recreates the fabulous landscape of a deranged artist's mind. It is a terrain...