Word: flappings
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...their duty to do it." "I'm witk You." That was all the slashers needed. Before long, White House staffers were wringing their hands as they saw the Administration's programs under fire. Throughout the Administration the budget uproar came to be called "the Humphrey flap." Typical remark at Cabinet meetings: "George, you see what you cost me in the House this week?" The most outspoken of Humphrey's Cabinet critics was Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, whose New England sense of thrift is every bit as sharp as that of Midwesterner Humphrey...
...story for RKO called My Friend Bonito. In her Vermont home, Mrs. Frances Flaherty has no thought of suing anyone. "I wouldn't think about protesting that award," she says, "but I'm highly amused by the whole situation." Welles is even more delighted with the flap. "If they [the King brothers] used a lot of our stuff and it worked," he chuckles, "hurrah for them...
...perfectionist. He has no use for the cancer surgeon who removes a woman's breast and suggests no replacement. Gillies makes an incision from below the armpit, across the abdomen, around the navel and back again. With the flesh thus released, he constructs a tube pedicle flap,* and as he brings it around to the side of the missing breast, the inside-out navel (concave to convex) takes the place of the nipple. After this surgery, a woman has an abdominal scar but no deformity. In some patients, as a result of an embryonic failure, a breast...
...Pedicle flaps from the arm are sometimes attached to the stump of a partly destroyed nose as the first step in its reconstruction. They are then severed from the arm. This gives the patient a "trunk" several inches long. One man disappeared after this stage of the operation, did not show up again for years. Then he explained: he had made a living in a circus sideshow as "the elephant man." With the flap tailored as planned, the nose looked normal...
...Invented by Gillies; so-called because the flap, while being grafted into its new position, is left attached to a tubular stalk (pedicle) of tissue and thus well supplied with blood. The pedicle is removed later...