Word: jointedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metal Hip When Air Force Veterinarian Harry A. Gorman was working for a master's degree at Ohio State University, he designed an all-metal device to replace the hip joint in injured dogs. One of the judges who passed on Colonel Gorman's work was Orthopedic Surgeon Judson Wilson. The artificial joint looked so good and worked so well in dogs that Dr. Wilson decided to try minor design changes that would make it suitable for human patients...
...recognizable success-and it is in the Middle East that such a success seems to beckon. Therefore, said Ike, spelling out the way U.S. collective-security planning had helped in Western Europe, Greece, Turkey and the Far East, "it is now essential that the U.S. should manifest through joint action of the President and the Congress our determination to assist those nations of the Mideast area which may desire that assistance." That was why he had come before them to request stand-by congressional authority...
...White House, worked at reshuffling the Senate's Republican high command, helped draft a unanimous-consent agreement under which the Senate would debate a change in its rules, and assisted in writing a resolution paving the way for President Eisenhower's Middle East message to a joint session of Congress. All this was part of Knowland's job as leader of a Senate minority that represents a party in executive power. It was also prologue to a political challenge that has no precedent in U.S. history...
...play the movie. In Boston, a spokesman for Catholic Layman Joseph P. Kennedy, ex-U.S. Ambassador to Britain and father of Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy, announced that he would keep the picture out of his chain of 23 theaters in Maine and New Hampshire. (In Washington a Joint Services Commission discreetly omitted the picture from the list approved for showing in theaters of the armed forces; G.I.s will have to go to public movie houses to see it.) But in 18 key cities from New York to Los Angeles, Baby Doll piled up grosses that Variety called HUGE...
...murmur of menservants, and in the dining room of their country mansion, "there were always two little colored girls ... to waft the flies from us with enormous peacock feathers." When the time came for Gerard to go to Yale, he thought it would be wise to case the ancient joint before entrusting his person to it. Horrified by its soiled, congested appearance, Gerard entered Princeton, a place which to him really "looked like a university...