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Passion Is Essential. He began by collecting ancient manuscripts and ancient instruments: a pardessus de viole (high-pitched, five-stringed viol), a viole de gambe (six-stringed forerunner of the cello), a viole d'amour (whose seven steel strings vibrate in "sympathy" as the seven gut strings are played), a basse de viole (big forerunner of the stringed bass). He commissioned Pleyel of Paris to make a two-manual, six-pedal harpsichord...
...southern prong had been struck by air attack, was plowing on. Before it stood the heavy firepower of Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet. The Seventh would stop it, and smash it to bits in the twelve-mile-wide gut of Surigao. The northern group, approaching San Bernardino Strait, had also been air-attacked. Airmen reported that it had been turned back...
...material trickled out through the wound, where it could do comparatively little harm. Wrote the Captain admiringly: "In her successful management of this case, Nature endorses the principles at present advocated for the immediate surgical treatment of such an injury." All that remained to be done was to separate gut and abdominal wall, stitch up the gut, clean and dress the wound. In three weeks, the patient went home and, six months later, was perfectly healthy...
...diaphragm and between-rib muscles which do the work of breathing. (The danger of the drug is that just a little more than enough to relax the abdominal muscles may paralyze breathing-therefore only expert anesthetists should use it.) Besides relaxing skeletal muscles, curare contracts the gut, making it easy to handle and replace...
...mountain eyrie, 4,500 ft. up in the Alaouite Mountains and built like a Damascus house, TIME Correspondent Harry Zinder visited him, was treated to a gut-busting luncheon, long complimentary speeches, weird music and the sight of seven of his village lovelies prancing mightily as they sang in a throaty, minor key. Suleiman, despite his 18 wives, his 14 children and the fact that doctors give him only two more years because of fatty degeneration of the heart, beamed contentedly. Cabled Correspondent Zinder of Suleiman's lair: "Grim hills step giantlike across rich, fruitful valleys, their sides scarred...