Word: flaccid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...severe cases, they call in the surgeon. Dr. Kegel, 62, gynecologist and onetime (1927-31) health commissioner of Chicago, argues that this is wrong on two counts: 1) the importance of the pubococcygeus has been neglected because it has usually been studied only in cadavers, where it is always flaccid, whereas its weakness should be detected promptly in living patients; 2) there is a better way than surgery to correct most cases of pubococcygeal weakness...
This gave the surgeons a "dry field" and a heart at rest. With deft scalpel, Surgeon Effler slit open the flaccid right ventricle, drew the remaining blood from it, and located the opening in the septum. He sutured the sides of the hole together. Then he took the clamp off the aorta and let blood from the artificial heart flow back into nature's heart. The potassium citrate soon washed out and-with no artificial prodding-the heart resumed its normal rhythm even before Effler could finish closing the ventricle wall. Last week, nine weeks after the operation...
TRIAL, by Don Mankiewicz (306 pp.; Harper; $3.50), is the $10,000 winner of the Harper Prize Novel Contest, but the ribbon it really earns is a piece of black crape. The book is a flaccid throwback to the I-never-had-a-chance school of social protest popular in the '30s. Author Mankiewicz, 32, nephew of movie Writer-Director-Producer Joe (The Barefoot Contessa) Mankiewicz, chooses as his hero-victim an 18-year-old boy of Mexican descent who lives in a Southern California town that draws its color line tight as a noose. Straying from "Mex Town...
...work which has replaced Bullfrog on the Bank as a staple of Ivy League glee clubs. In comparison with the virile Amherst version we heard two years ago, Princeton's performance was disappointing. The striking dissonances were merely out of tune; rhythms that should have been incisive were flaccid...
...after Stalin's death was proclaimed, the world learned the name of his successor: Georgy Malenkov, gross and flaccid in appearance but in fact a chip off the same granite block. For the moment, there was no sign of quarreling among the pallbearers. While the new regime dug in, the rest of the world might get a breathing spell, But the death of Stalin itself did not change any fact of geography, economics or ambition; it did not destroy a single Soviet regiment nor ground a single MIG, nor stop a single...