Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pease technique is based on the fact that a foreign object lodged in a bone (or any part of the body) causes irritation which results in increased circulation in the region. In a minor operation, Pease bores a hole in the bone of a stunted leg about one-half inch from the epiphyseal plate (the layer of growing cells near the end of a bone) and inserts a small screw. A screw of almost any material will cause enough irritation to promote circulation, but Dr. Pease prefers ivory because it is eventually absorbed by the body. Under the stimulus...
...CRIMSON printed the first "Radcliffe Mother" letter in its Dartmouth Game issue last fall. Headed 'RADCLIFFE MOTHER RAPS RACY 'POON,' it was written by two editorial board members when a three-inch hole developed in an editorial page at one in the morning. This letter (as did a review above it) commented on a spread of reasonably dirty cartoons reprinted in a Lampoon parody of a mid-western humor magazine. It had remarkable dirty cartoons reprinted in a Lampoon parody of a mid-western humor magazine. It had remarkable results. The morning it appeared a woman, claiming...
Despite rising exports, Britain got into this meat hole because of a gimmick beloved of its doctrinaire Socialists, bulk buying. The fact that the government does all Britain's buying of essential foods and many other commodities is supposed to enhance its bargaining power, make imports cheaper for Britain's people. But after Britain became a bulk buyer, Argentina, which supplies 20% of Britain's meat imports, became in self-defense a bulk seller...
...Bedroom Raid." As the raiding party fumbled with a screen door, a .22 rifle cracked inside the dark house. Mrs. Gehr toppled over, dead, with a bullet hole between her eyes. The rifle cracked again, and the detectives-one of them wounded in the arm-charged off in frantic retreat. Mrs. Matthews jumped out a rear window and ran, too-according to tabloid reports, completely naked...
...resignation immediately." When an assembly line slowed down, Colbert would hop on a motor scooter and dash to the scene of the trouble. Finally, the first engine came off the line and began its loo-hour test run. After 70 hours, the engine blew up; a tiny oil hole had not been drilled all the way through. But the next engine tested perfectly...