Word: gra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scrubby legs could carry him, and then ran round it again. He ran through the side door of the school auditorium. He ran onstage at the instant of his cue (Enter a Messenger), staggered up to the startled young Macbeth and collapsed in a spectacular wreckage of words: "Gra,(gasp!)cious my (gulp!) lord, I (sob!) should report that (wheeze!) which I (glug!) . . ." The audience gasped, gulped, stared, roared, crashed into applause...
...Children, Isabella Graham was accustomed to problems, but she found herself faced with an unusually pathetic one. Six of her widows had suddenly died, and except for the dreaded almshouse, there was no place for their children to go. Then one day in March 1806, Manhattan's Mrs. Gra ham had an idea. She summoned nine other ladies, including Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, to a meeting, set up a board of directors of what is now New York's oldest orphanage. Last week, as the Graham School in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. celebrated its isoth anniversary, it was still...
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Gra-ziella Sciutti, Sena Jurinac, Rise Stevens, Sesto Bruscantini; Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Vittorio Gui; Victor, 3 LPs). A sturdy performance of the Mozart masterpiece, sometimes on the slow side, but bubbling with enthusiasm and style...
...Grańa and Rocca cut a hole in the left side of the patient's skull, and cleaned out a blood clot (the result of an injury) that had been pressing against his brain and had robbed him of the power of speech. They replaced the piece of skull and sewed up the scalp. The whole operation had taken 14 minutes. The ancient surgical instruments were sent back to the National Museum of Archeology. Last week the doctors examined their patient, told him he could go back to his work as a cabinetmaker this week...
...Lima surgeons' feat was no idle trick. For years they had studied ancient skulls, instruments and bandages, and had practiced using the museum relics in autopsies. After their first use on a live patient, Dr. Grańa was delighted. The operation proved, he said, that the ancients' tools and methods were as good as the moderns', and in some ways perhaps better. For the future, he foresaw wider use of the tourniquet bandage, which had given him an almost bloodless field of operation. And he thinks another pre-Inca wrinkle may prove useful: flexible bronze needles...