Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, engineers have tried to overcome the insensitivity of the artificial arm with a variety of devices that produce electric shocks or emit auditory signals when pressure is put on the hooks. Dr. Frank Clippinger Jr., an orthopedist at Duke University Medical Center, tried a different approach. He coupled a strain gauge into the cable that operates the hook end of an artificial arm and wired it to a surgically implanted electrical stimulator. The stimulator, in turn, was connected directly to the medial or main arm nerve; the current is perceived as a mild tingling, which by its intensity tells...
...half or two hours." The Socialist Worker turned pale. "What about you?" he said finally, turning to the unaffiliated rad, who I guess he hoped would either top the guy from PL or suggest that he was a liar, in either case letting the questioner off the hook...
...industrial engineer from Holyoke, Mass., Joe Cahill, agreed: "You want to believe him, but you cannot." Jim Brandon, a Little Rock advertising man, referred to an Arkansas expression, "That dog won't hunt." He added: "Well, that sums up my reaction. Nixon attempted to get off the hook, but he didn't make...
...Arab world was delighted last week when the U.N. Security Council condemned Israel for the skyjacking of a chartered Iraqi airliner. But mixed with that pleasure was a fear that somehow Palestinian commandos would let Israel off the hook by staging another bloody spectacular, just as they did after Israeli jets shot down a Libyan airliner last March at a cost of 108 lives...
...lizards, moray eels, and huge reptiles standing in blood-soaked carpets sipping cocktails. The drive for success/money/power has created a world where an "eat the wounded" shark ethic prevails, but Thompson believes its apocalypse is imminent. He watches people burn themselves out in struggles for self-preservation, escaping "meat-hook reality" through dope, booze, and watching football -- "whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time...