Word: eyebrow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some Gillies operations are notable for lively ingenuity: he has reconstructed eyelids, complete with lashes, from the edge of the eyebrow. Others are heroic. He does not flinch from cutting through the bones of the upper jaw so that most of the face is detached from its moorings, then fixing the bones in a new alignment. And some patients are heroic: a woman whose entire lower jaw was removed for cancer in 1939, so that her tongue hung down her neck, has had 27 plastic operations. She has a new lower jaw with a denture, and eats normally. Though...
...effectively assassinated the conjunction as. The singing commercial has popularized so many defective rhymes (gleam with sheen, time with fine, gasoline with supreme] that Fadiman fears the blunting of the simple capacity to match the sound of one word with another. Other commercials tell "how to use eyebrow pencil so it looks natural" or implore the viewer to "have a Camel. They really...
...Raised an interested eyebrow at the possibility of top U.S. military officers visiting Russia. Following a phone call by the Soviet embassy last week inviting Air Force Chief of Staff Nathan Twining to send two or three high-level airmen to Moscow's Aviation Day, June 24, Assistant White House Press Secretary Murray Snyder told newsmen he "wouldn't be surprised" if all the Joint Chiefs accepted a Red invitation. Diplomatically, this was a gaffe, because an invitation had not even been issued. But was it a hint? Next day Senate Republican Leader William Knowland, who can take...
...constitution will not go into effect until March. That circumstance last week saved Castillo Armas from having to use his special clause right away, when the government discovered what it said was a plot run by Guatemalans associated with Arbenz. With the eyebrow-raising explanation that "I will follow Communist methods in suppressing subversion-they taught us how to do it," the President jailed dozens of his opponents. Most were soon freed again, but four were exiled to El Salvador...
...reminding it that course reduction applications--submitted by concentrators who want to reduce their course load next spring in order to pursue special advanced studies--should be filed by the end of Christmas vacation. And so thoroughly accepted has the idea of Advanced Standing become, that not a Departmental eyebrow will be raised...