Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consistently produced? Nobody bothered to ask the Canadians, but they had what seemed the answer: yes, if the vaccine is made in small enough quantities in laboratories following rigid university standards. Canada had made up its governmental mind last fall to do this, so there was no last-minute flap north of the border as there was in the U.S. And nobody tried to hurry the production. The University of Toronto's Connaught Medical Research Laboratories (TIME, March 29, 1954) did the job without fuss and feathers. Then the federal and provincial governments jointly gave the vaccine for youngsters...
...wedding shower (see Big Twister in NATIONAL AFFAIRS), tornado-wise Murray Gart of the Wichita Eagle shared her uneasiness. Gart, 30, a displaced Bostonian who is news editor of the Eagle, and TIME'S Wichita correspondent, knew it was impossible to outguess nature when the tails of twisters flap in the sky like shreds of a tattered flag. He could only wait...
...Mantas in vast flocks flap silently through pale and gloom, a nightmare vision as of witches on their way to the evil sabbath...
...basic technique suggested by British Surgeon Laurence O'Shaughnessy (who was killed at Dunkirk). Dr. Vineberg opened Watkins' chest, cut into the heart sac and removed part of its innermost layer, the epicardium. This exposed the enlarged left ventricle. From the abdominal cavity he pulled up a flap of the omentum, a layer of fatty tissue which has a generous blood supply, and attached it so that the omentum's blood would nourish the left ventricle...
...began life with a flip and flap...