Word: jugulars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ground 8 ft. long and filled it with formalin to preserve his massive specimens. Most interesting to Dr. Goetz were the veins and arteries in the giraffes' long necks. To pump blood so high, giraffes' hearts weigh 25 Ibs., 40 times as much as human hearts. The jugular vein is more than an inch in diameter, and is fitted with an intricate system of efficient valves. They apparently protect the giraffe's head from too much blood when its neck is lowered. The hoselike vein also acts as a blood reservoir. It is more or less collapsed...
...about him. Pale and lanky ("He has the sort of face you would expect to see reflected in a spoon," says one acquaintance), he often dresses in flowered waistcoats and velvet-lapeled jackets with turned-back Edwardian cuffs, and a mink necktie. "It looks like a raccoon at my jugular," says Tynan. "People ask me, 'Who's your friend?' " At home, with his two-year-old daughter and his American-born wife Elaine Dundy, he sometimes wears leopard-skin pants...
...controversy has become unpopular both to a large share of its semi-captive audience and some of the principles involved. A growing sentiment, represented by Senator McCarthy when he called it "a fight over a private in the Army," teamed with his frequent allusions to "razors near America's jugular vein" have resulted in considerable pressure to cut short the hearings...
...Jugular. In Daniel Webster's more leisurely time, the great case of McCulloch v. Maryland consumed six days of argument; today counsel are ordinarily confined to an "hour apiece. For Davis, therefore, Webster's first principle of argumentation is more important than ever: "The power of clear statement is the great power at the bar." In front of him, Davis spreads out the "record on appeal," and the "briefs" (written arguments, hammered out by other lawyers in his firm and submitted to the court in advance). Davis has prepared no full-length script, no memorized remarks-just...
Even the jeers, however, were moderate and dignified, and Republican Riegelman, with a roller canary's fierce, hot instinct for the jugular, left town in the midst of the uproar to confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over the problem of U.S. policy toward Israel-a matter with some bearing on New York City's Jewish vote. The New York Daily News poll, hastily rejiggered to compensate for Impy's absence from the languid battle, showed Wagner ahead, 2 t01, nine days before election. But if the whole campaign had been conceived to drive...