Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neck-traction rig, dashes into the room to cut down what she diagnoses as a would-be suicide; she borrows a pair of scissors from the operating room and nearly sends an appendicitis case back to surgery for a reopening when the shears turn up missing in the instrument count. Mercifully, she does not get her possum-petting hands on a gadget in the operating room that goes "ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa" while Dr. Cheswick assists on a tricky heart operation ("The microvalve is becoming more atresic," he mutters...
...secretary of the Inter-American Economic and Social Council, Lleras' by a president elected every five years. Says Lleras: 'He would become the figure that the Alianza is lacking so that its image may cease to be that of a U.S. political enterprise, and become a collective instrument, a multilateral machine, an authentic movement of the national forces of 20 countries...
...question is simply this: Can a Negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen? We think not. On the contrary, [Negroes] were at that time considered as a subordinate and inferior class of beings . . . altogether unfit to associate with the white race...
...finally the star-speckled blackness of outer space. Later, as they view the looming surface of the moon, they will begin another countdown to launch a smaller detachable capsule for a lunar landing. Before the astronauts see earth again, their skill and nerves will be severely tested by instrument failures, pressure drops, misfiring retrorockets and unexpected heat waves...
Highs & Lows. The procedure is called thermography, and Dr. R. Bowling Barnes, president of Barnes Engineering Corp., which developed the camera, describes the picture taken on photographic film as a "thermal map of the skin." The instrument does not ir radiate the subject in any way. Instead, it scans the body surface for six to twelve minutes to register the invisible infra-red rays emitted by the body itself. Where blood concentrates close to the surface-in veins, infections or abnormally rapid growths-the skin runs a higher temperature and the thermogram shows a light spot. Where there are areas...