Word: flapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More recently, Vance privately displayed some uncustomary anger in the neutron bomb flap. He "went through five roofs," reports an aide, when other advisers pressured Carter to counter a partly inaccurate New York Times report that the President had decided against production of the weapon by immediately announcing that he had resolved only to postpone production. Vance argued for a week's delay in which to brief affected NATO allies. He was given only a few days, but it was time enough to get out advance word and limit the diplomatic damage...
...decrepit. The country is growing up so fast--growing up cynical. The rich advance, playing the stock-market and beating back the unions. The workingman comes to understand he is no more than a commodity. A world war is fought for democracy and the benefit of the wealthy. Flappers flap and workers grow accustomed to Henry Ford's innovative assembly-line factory techniques and nobody--rich or poor--can hear over all the din. No one can think. They just keep on laboring and dancing. And stepping up the pace...
...outside the skull. For this procedure, Ausman and other neurosurgeons use part of the temporal artery, which ascends in front of the ear and then divides, one branch carrying blood to the forehead and the eye socket, the other to the scalp. First they cut and fold down a flap of scalp above the ear. In the process, they sever the artery and separate it from the scalp. (Other vessels supply blood to the region above the severed artery.) Next, they saw out a piece of skull, about the size of a half-dollar, to expose one of the arteries...
...blood vessels are so thin-no thicker than an ordinary pencil lead -that the surgeon must peer through a microscope while joining them together.) Then, when the cerebral artery branch is undamped, additional blood spurts into the brain. Finally, the surgeon closes the hole by restoring the skin flap; usually the excised piece of bone is discarded, but patients rarely suffer any discomfort from the soft spot...
...well; GM became the target of about 250 state and private lawsuits. Last week, after months of legal maneuvering, the company reached a settlement with 44 state attorneys general, who had been suing on behalf of all "Chevymobile" buyers in their states, that should end the great engine flap...