Word: gutting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desired end point-where the muscles of breathing are denied signals from the brain's respiratory center, causing death. In surgery curare-like compounds permit the use of lighter anesthetic doses. They are especially valuable in abdominal operations because they cut down the activity of muscles around the gut. They facilitate the passing of a tube through the windpipe for artificial respiration. They are useful in some nervous disorders, in controlling convulsions from shock treatments, and have been tried for paralysis resulting from poliomyelitis...
...society. As examples of this he cites Jewish opposition to inclusion of a question about religion on the U.S. census and the lack of public Jewish support for the Catholic position in the Hildy McCoy adoption case (TIME, April 1 et seq.). "Too often . . . the question Is es gut far Iden? (How will it affect the Jews?) seems to determine official Jewish action on public issues...
...Committee of the Whole to debate civil rights, Smith issued a two-part order of the day. His 100 Southern Congressmen were to concentrate fire behind an amendment calling for jury trials in contempt cases-a device of North Carolina's Senator Sam Ervin Jr. that would effectively gut the bill while piously pretending to preserve venerable jury-trial rights (TIME, May 6). They were to fight the battle with calmness and consideration, said Smith...
...carrying on with a French business man (Jean Pierre Aumont) in Hong Kong. When her husband finds out, he (of course) packs her off posthaste to the nearest outbreak of cholera. Her character immediately begins to improve. The local white trash (George Sanders) philosophically assures her that Schnapps ist gut für die Cholera. But at the sight of a corpse the heroine clutches her throat theatrically and gasps: "It makes everything else seem horribly trivial...
...introduction to the report notes: "It is hardly necessary to document the evidence for the lack of real interest in the intellectual life of the University on the part of all too many students; the swarm that descends on "gut" courses, the hundreds whose memorization of the student outline is the only discipline their minds get in a course, and the multitude who simply take notes and disgorge the lectures, duly organized, on hour tests and examinations testify to the apathy of the average Yale student towards his studies. The theme is repeated by faculty and students alike; many have...