Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gangly male dancers in khaki and open shirts and lithe young girls in flower prints and leotards lounged in motley array on a dirty yellow staircase. Two carpenters surveyed a set of flimsy stairs for the opening production number, The Prince Is Giving a Ball. "It'll never hold the way it is," said one. "Better put a brace under it." Through ganglia of cables down from a remote eyrie came the cry of an electrician: "The damn lights haven't any numbers on them." A large reflector crashed to the floor. "It's the only...
Three dozen or more minor blood vessels had to be tied off to stanch the bleeding. One surgeon would hold a clamp on a blood vessel while another passed the suture silk around it, deftly tying knots. With ribs and breastbone now lying bare, Bailey chose which bones to cut, called "rib shears." A scrub nurse handed him a device like fowl shears with offset handles. With firm pressure of powerful hands. Bailey himself snipped the breastbone...
...apart. The assistants cut deeper through the chest. "Lung retractors." The heaving lungs were pushed aside. Many more blood vessels were tied off. Bailey slit the heart sac almost from top to bottom, took quick stitches in it, left long threads which were clamped to the rib spreaders to hold the sac open...
...goods at low cost, an iceless icebox has been developed by Aluminum Co. of America and Stone Container Corp. The carton uses reflecting aluminum foil on the outside to keep products cool in shipment, no matter how hot it gets inside trucks or trains. It is big enough to hold twelve chickens or 50 lbs. of other goods, will keep them at 45° to 48° for eleven hours or longer in temperatures as high...
Will they be able to resist temptation? Will the honor of the corps be upheld? Will the vows of the spirit hold firm against the fevers of the flesh? Will Hollywood knowingly offend millions of Roman Catholic moviegoers and throw $2,500,000 down the drain...