Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign plane or bus hunched over 3-in. by 5-in. index cards, laboriously printing capital letters with a nylon-tip pen-"my speech for the next town." He has a kind of mental Erector set of phrases, figures and gags that he has used hundreds of times to fit any occasion...
...designed as drawing points for all of the citizens of the five large large districts indicated in the following section of this report. The sites should therefore be selected to create common meeting grounds for the older, traditional neighborhoods. Innovative designing can make available sites in Pittsburgh which will fit these criteria. Parts of the centers can be built as air right structures over highways or rivers or as bridges across canyons. And such building can and should be done without marring the natural beauty of Pittsburgh's rivers, hills, and valleys. Structures which span valleys can also bring together...
...aseptic precautions. Two "quite serious" cancer operations were under way, and Hall counted 43 persons clustered around. Some were perched on stepladders, others moved from one operation to the other, "stirring up dust and substantially increasing the dangers of infection." In a delicate nose restoration, a crude, oversized needle "fit only for abdominal surgery" was used. An effort to rebuild a face involved an old-fashioned technique that required transplanting flesh tunneled from the patient's arm. "In the U.S.," said Dr. Hall, "the surgeon would have used free grafts and implant materials...
...grand flourish, thus recommending its advantages and their expertise to friends. Most of them were feeling the gorge of possessive passion that comes when one is first deeply convinced that he is going to Harvard; the only flaw is that the beer mugs and stationery purchased in this fit don't evaporate with...
...stage dazzles. There alone did Barber's vocal writing transform itself into genuine opera. And so what the Met had to offer on its first night in its new quarters was a musical extravaganza-which is precisely what Rudolf Bing had had in mind as a bauble fit to set in his shiny showcase...