Word: flaccidities
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...heart and lungs. The plastic tubes are passed through a chamber of the heart to the large veins. Debbie's heart is opened." Then an injection of potassium citrate stopped the heart for 15 minutes; in throat-parching closeups, the hole inside Debbie's still, flaccid heart, too big for safe stitching, was repaired with a plastic patch made from stuff similar to kitchen sponges. Two weeks later Debbie went home-with every likelihood of a normal life expectancy...
...much deeper. In the current production, three accomplished actors cannot save, or even for long sustain, the play. Nor is the general effect one of crude mass: it is much more one of sheer dead weight. O'Neill's greatest fault-using too many and too flaccid words-flattens out a story that is at best never intense enough; it evokes, not the shock of living drama, but the ghost of other plays...
Next day, with Russia abstaining, the Security Council adopted by a vote of 10 to 0 a flaccid resolution to send President Jarring to Kashmir simply to look things over and make a report. "Mr. Jarring," said Mr. Menon, "would always be welcome in India as would everyone else," but there could be no talk of "high policy matters" at least until after the Indian elections...
...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...