Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Norman Sax, of Los Angeles, got a 14-year-old patient, a Pekinese named Duke, with his lungs so awash that the least exertion set him to puffing and wheezing. The diagnosis was obvious: congestive heart failure. Dr. Sax injected a diuretic to help clear the fluid from Duke's lungs, prescribed half a grain of digitalis daily for the heart. To ease Duke's last days and his owner's anguish, Dr. Sax sent an oxygen tent to the house for use in wheezing attacks, kept him dosed with cortisone. Duke wheezed through 2½ more...
These lithographs are only vignettes, yet they are wonderfully complete. Each one has its own poetic raison d'etre, each one functions perfectly as an entity. Maillol has translated the grace and fluid volume of his sculpture to the lithographer's stone with such success because he is equally as fine a draughtsman as a sculptor...
...Navy Fireman Paul Basom swore that guards ordered him "to have a bowel movement in front of other prisoners. Then one man poured lighter fluid under me and lighted it. When it got hot I ran." Basom said he was later ordered by another guard to put out a burning cigarette with his bare feet...
...Hope) who somehow failed to return the charm and sincerity he oozed, though Hope was spasmodically funny: "The State Department is sending me to Asia to spread the American flu." Frankie Boy's most effective helpers appeared with him earlier in the week on the Edsel Show, a fluid, funny musical tour with Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Rosemary Clooney, which proved that in TV as anywhere else (see CINEMA) there is no substitute for style...
...alumni association for the Graduate Schools of Design, Arts and Sciences, and Public Administration, the Foundation has a function similar to that of the "Program." It solicits these alumni annually, and obtains a "fluid fund" which it uses for research grants, usually to first-year graduate students whose work does not yet merit attention from a large institution such as the Ford Foundation...