Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maine Medical Center in Portland, where Dr. Clement A. Hiebert had to do a 3½-hr. open-heart operation using a heart-lung machine to remove Kelley's bullet. But no less remarkable than Kelley's survival was the strange and tortuous route that the bullet fragment had followed. Slowed by smashing through his skull, it had landed in the left transverse sinus (a large vein). Then it had ''flowed" in the blood stream along the transverse sinus, down the main jugular vein and superior vena cava, into the right auricle (upper chamber...
...middle of a song, and she can scoodee-oo-da for 800 bars without running out of fresh gibberish. For added sparks, she tosses in little shards of the classics, such as, say, a bit of the William Tell Overture. Then suddenly she turns to a robust fragment of Did You Ever...
...move for the party nomination failed badly, however. The usually listless Peabody ordered his party whips to dangle jobs and low-numbered license plates before the corridor politicians at the convention. Peabody won over 80 per cent of the delegates, yet his coalition of factions and baronies began to fragment after the convention...
...affected by the breezes of Salzburg's Mirabell Palace gardens. Serenade ("Notturno") for Four Orchestras consists of make-believe echoes, in which a short statement by the first orchestra is repeated in turn by the other three, each abbreviating the phrase until the fourth sounds only a faint fragment of it-just as an echoed shout fades out in the distance...
...Your article covering Dr. Hoyle's theory of gravitation [June 26] was very informative, but it seems to me that Dr. Hoyle was preceded by Lucretius, who in 70 B.C. said: No single thing abides, but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings; the things thus grow until we know and name them. By degrees they melt, and are no more the thing we know...