Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tossed Bienvenida into the air. It was mauling Bienvenida, helpless on the sand, when the peones dashed up to cape the bull away. Instantly, Bienvenida's father and brother called on a husky, hawknosed six-footer, still dark-haired despite his 67 years: Dr. Luis Giménez Guinea, one of the world's most specialized surgeons, since 1940 official doctor of the plaza de toros and head surgeon of the 12-bed hospital for bullfighters, the Sanatorio de los Toreros...
Small Scalpels. No man living knows more about cornadas (horn wounds) than Don Luis Gim& #233;nez Guinea. He has written the book, classifying them according to the placement and type of horn-blunt or sharp, wide or narrow-spaced, projecting high or forward. Among the worst are wounds caused by splintered horns, which usually fan out in at least three directions, destroying a wide area of tissue...
With the bleeding Bienvenida, Surgeon Giménez Guinea wasted no time on such trivia as ribs, tackled immediately the ear-to-armpit wound that had exposed nerves and arteries in the neck. He had no time to prepare the patient for surgery; that is a luxury Giménez Guinea rarely enjoys. He told an assistant to inject antibiotics. Then he went to work with especially sharp, small scalpels with interchangeable blades of razor steel. Don Luis trimmed away dead tissue, sewed the edges of healthy tissue together, dusting the wound with germ-killing sulfa drugs. The most urgent...
Down Under Heaven. In Sydney, Australia, a newspaper columnist noted that Walk into Paradise, an Australian film about New Guinea, will be called Walk into Hell when it is distributed...
...airline pilots, and the Flight Engineers' International Assn.. which speaks for 3,500 U.S. mechanic-engineers now working on big DC-7s and Super Constellations. In the pilots' attempt to oust the engineers, says Western Air Lines President Terrell C. Drinkwater. "we were selected as a guinea pig for the entire industry...