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...poleaxed. No other player had even touched him. Under the strain of a sudden stop, his tensed knee had simply collapsed. First aid consisted of ice packs, and a couple of days later Alabama Surgeon Ernest C. Brock Jr. removed some fluid ("water on the knee") by inserting a hollow needle in the swollen joint...
Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree In the cool of the day, having fed to satiety On my legs my heart my liver and that which had been contained In the hollow round of my skull...
...closely guarded cluster of buildings in a dense forest outside Munich. From it has come such hardware as an experimental helicopter whose swiveling rotor blades will enable it to fly at a record 310 m.p.h., a heavy-duty rotor system that jets exhaust gases through the tips of hollow blades, and the VJ 101 vertical-takeoff fighter plane. With such help as he will get from Boeing, Ludwig Bölkow fully expects to help make Germany once again a major competitor in the world...
...technique was first used for examining welds and joints in everything from bridges to nuclear submarines. Then Technical Operations, Inc. of Burlington, Mass, helped Eastern solve the problem of getting radiographic equipment into the hollow rotor shaft of jet engines by using a 100-curie capsule of iridium 192 that is as small as a pencil eraser but emits gamma radiation powerful enough to pierce the engine's metal innards...
Zorba the Greek. A wild wind whirls through an open door. A wild old man strides into a dingy waiting room. His face is like a side of cheese the maggots have been at, but his eyes are bright and piercing. "Hollow cheeks, strong jaw, jutting cheekbones, a large voracious mouth, a living heart, a great brute soul not yet severed from Mother Earth"-this is Zorba the Greek. He strides up to a young man he has never seen before and looks deep into his eves. "I like you," he announces fiercely. "Take me with...