Word: fingertip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hold with the tenderest chicken and juiciest steak, packing it all away in dry ice with flawless precision so that each day's meals come up on top in the proper order. On board, far above the world's anguish, life is eased by soft stereo and fingertip service from the six stewards. Who could resist...
When a child's fingertip is sliced off or smashed in a car door, most doctors sew up the wound or attempt to reconstruct the digit. But the best treatment for such injuries may be none at all. Writing in the Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Dr. Cynthia Illingworth of the Children's Hospital in Sheffield, England, reports that until the child is age eleven or so, a fingertip that is not damaged below the first joint will often regenerate spontaneously if left alone. Thus instead of suturing up smashed or amputated fingertips, Dr. Illingworth and her colleagues merely...
Horowitz could find neither knife nor volunteer, as both grad students declined his invitation. "We're not your grad students," they said. "We're only on loan." But he was determined to analyze some blood, and after sterilizing a probe he began testing his fingertip gently. His resolve waning, he wondered aloud, "Is this...
...matter when he stands up to the taunts of her intellectual friends. Out of ignorance he keeps mum at a Christmas soiree while three of these pink-faced friends debate Marx and the Church--they talk hollow-voiced in five syllable jargon and make their points with snaky fingertip gestures. When Simon interrupts to protest their irreverence, they quiz him on his culture, until, failed and furious, he takes a stolid leave...
...crumbled state, Marinates has them picked up piece by piece and reassembled on the spot by gentle-fingered experts in a workshed. The few visitors admitted to "surgery" find tables strewn with seeming jigsaw puzzles of painted plaster bits. One represents a blue monkey springing up through space with fingertip lightness (see second color page). The perfection of his leap sets this image among the greatest paintings of animals ever created...