Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political strategies seem to be shifting, the traditional tactic-getting out and meeting the voters-is more effective than ever. Far from eliminating leg work, television has accentuated the candidate's need to campaign in the flesh, especially at the level of the congressional district and below. The cost of paid TV spots often makes them a prohibitive luxury until the final weeks of a campaign. Yet in something of a TV backlash, the very fact that television has made political performers commonplace makes it harder for candidates to attract crowds...
...stepladders, others moved from one operation to the other, "stirring up dust and substantially increasing the dangers of infection." In a delicate nose restoration, a crude, oversized needle "fit only for abdominal surgery" was used. An effort to rebuild a face involved an old-fashioned technique that required transplanting flesh tunneled from the patient's arm. "In the U.S.," said Dr. Hall, "the surgeon would have used free grafts and implant materials...
...Deep Within Myself." Most experiences of mystical consciousness have come only after hard work - spartan prayers, meditation, fasting, mortification of the flesh. Now it is possible, through the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs, to induce something like mystical consciousness in a controlled laboratory environment. Such experimentation should be pushed forward, contend Psychiatrist Walter Pahnke, who holds a Harvard theology degree, and his associate William Richards, who has a degree in the psychology of religion from Andover-Newton Theo logical School. They publish their findings in the current Journal of Religion and Health...
Called decubitus ulcers, bedsores develop quickly when tissue dies after blood is squeezed out by body weight acting on such pressure points as the base of the spine. Flesh is opened right to the bone in oozing craters. The extra nursing care that is called for costs thousands of dollars, and insurance companies allot 25% of expenses in all spinal-cord injuries for bedsore treatment alone. Serious and persistent as it is, the bedsore problem is usually handled by a method that is decades old: sheepskin sheets that soften pressure on patients and permit air to circulate under their bodies...
...pressure is removed. As a substitute for natural cushions, he first tried placing wads of soft pie dough under his patients, then lumps of a children's jelly-like plaything called Silly Putty. Next, he designed 16-sq.-in. pads of silicone gel, which have the resiliency of flesh itself. Protected by such pads, sores in bedridden patients were not only prevented but also healed. When the gel is used in wheel-chair seats, says Spence, the decreased threat of pain and tissue breakdown even serves as a form of psychotherapy...