Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right side. By this time they were about ready for a tricky piece of surgery they call "fishing through the ice." Last week they interrupted Margie's eighth-grade studies (a New York City schoolteacher keeps children in the hospital plugging at their work), used an instrument like poultry shears to cut a rectangular hole in the back of the cast, over the spot where the curve had been sharpest. More X rays showed the new position of the vertebrae, indicated how many would have to be fused...
...being cured. Oil imports were well under the quotas, and inventories of U.S. crude stocks were down to 279 million bbl. from 288 million last July, when import curbs were first applied. This was only 14 million bbl. more than companies reporting to the Texas Railroad Commission, a potent instrument of the domestic oil producers, recently set as desirable and normal operating stocks. During the next two months, Washington is expected to consider whether voluntary import quotas will be needed for the year beginning July 1 and, if so, how restrictive they need be. By acting in time the Government...
...guard civilians against the health hazards of nuclear radiation. ¶Ultrasound vibrations (TIME, Dec. 2), already available for high-speed painless drilling, were demonstrated to Greater New York dentists as a means of cleaning the teeth. At 26,000 vibrations per second, a blunt, smooth tip on the instrument dislodges accumulations of calculus (tartar), including those below the gumline, where they do the most harm, while a continuous fine jet of lukewarm water washes the debris away. Advantages: to the dentist, speed; to the patient, gentleness, as compared with sharp scrapers, and reduced danger of injury to the teeth...
...entire side of her first LP (That Satin Doll; Atlantic) almost completely without words. This could sound like a cat trapped in a rain barrel, but somehow manages not to. In the best of her all-but-wordless songs (the composer, Phil Moore, calls the technique "Woman-as-an-Instrument"), Carol fogs out three minutes of lowdown vowels, then wraps it up with wacky sexiness in a single phrase of explicit English: "Saved it all for you." Titles on the reverse side-Lying in the Hay, Keep on Doin' What You're Doin'-leave little doubt...
Almost too slight-looking for his muscle-straining art, Shafran handled his instrument as if it were no bigger than a fiddle. In two programs he ranged from the Khachaturian cello concerto to a Bach suite to Debussy pieces. He played with uncanny accuracy and ease, demonstrated his power by the zing of his attacks, especially in the way he clouted his instrument in loud pizzicato chords. At quieter moments, he laid his cheek against the neck of the cello as if it were a pillow. Shafran's tone was big and creamy, his cantilena as expressive...