Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bear it!" wailed Terrorist Mio Kraj. "The click-click of that metal flap gives me no sleep night or day. The eye that peers through that peephole hypnotizes me. It makes it impossible for me to eat or sleep. I can't bear...
...iron or steel bars. Considered fantastically extravagant abroad, these permit the U. S. jailbird to see out, give him a feeling of proximity to other human beings as they pass up & down the corridor. In Europe cell doors are solid, cheap, have a peephole closed by a metal flap. Day & night, usually at 20 minute intervals, the prisoner hears the flap click, knows that he is being peeped at by his guards. This makes most prisoners nervous, has come to be accepted as a prison commonplace. In Marseille last week one of the Balkan terrorists arrested after the assassination...
...York a surgeon made an incision from front to back of Carl Meyer's head, lifted the flap, removed an inch-long tumor from his brain. Numb with local anesthesia, Carl Meyer held up a mirror, took a good long look inside his cranium...
...Howard retells it in 29 scenes played without an intermission against an "essentialist"' setting devised by Jo Mielziner. The background of the stage, a flight of stairs surmounted by a sort of cage to represent a laboratory, does not change. A few essential props-a bed, the back flap of a tent, a hospital cot-indicate scenes where necessary. That the most genuinely heroic human activities do not always make the most stirring dramas is a fact which does not greatly injure the effect of Yellow Jack, which remains an honest interesting chronicle about men who did not think...
...three years Dr. Beaumont tried to close the hole in the boy's stomach. Ultimately a flap grew over the hole and retained food in the stomach. But any time he wished Dr. Beaumont could push the flap away and see what was going on within the stomach. This inquisitiveness made him think of starting a research within the processes of digestion, concerning which knowledge was hypothetical. Alexis St. Martin grew impatient with the experiments, ran away to his Canadian home, married, and fathered two children before Beaumont could find him, through fur trappers...