Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major problems is leaky valves. There wasn't much that surgery could do about it. So I went back to the beginning, and one of the answers, obviously, was to put in a substitute valve." Dr. Hufnagel soon designed an artificial valve containing a plastic ball float, and began trying it on dogs. It worked...
...passenger on the Hong Kong-Macao ferry last week was as weather-beaten, ageless and nondescript as a chunk of driftwood. Like the driftwood, he seemed doomed to float from shore to shore on the China Sea forever. He had no passport. His name, he said, is Michael Patrick O'Brien, but he readily admitted: "Back home in Washington and Oregon, they call me Steven Stanley Regan." He never knew his father; his mother was Hungarian; the only identification he possesses is a Red Cross certificate which calls him "a stateless Irishman...
...Brattle does reopen, Haliday assorts, it will be on a non-profit basis. The company will reorganize its executive structure and solicit contributions rather than float stocks and bonds sales...
...Thanks to the unpopular measures that have already been taken by the Chancellor, we have reached in the last six months a position of equipoise. Our head is above water, but it is not enough to float. We have to swim . . . and we have to swim against the stream. At the moment, we can say we are holding our own . . . but we cannot be satisfied with that. We cannot live from hand to mouth and from month to month in this world of change and turmoil. We must create by long and steady systems of trade and exchange throughout...
Pink Clouds. Ike took the salute like a candidate who was in love with his job. He nudged Mamie when the first float rolled by; it was a replica of the white frame house where he was born in Denison, Texas, and bore a sign which read: "Birth Date Oct. 14, 1890." He did a little caper on the marquee when the high-school band played Alexander's Ragtime Band. And he grabbed Mamie and hugged her when he saw the "marriage float," bearing two Abilene youngsters on pink clouds in front of a heart-shaped lattice. The last...