Word: kept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Long Island, N.Y., service-station operator named Franklin Mirando checked into a suburban hospital in July 1975 for the implanting of an artificial hip joint, he had little reason for concern. Such operations are routinely performed more than 100,000 times a year in the U.S., and have kept countless people on their feet who might otherwise be left permanently crippled by arthritis and other ailments. But Mirando's surgery turned into a permanent nightmare. He was left in constant pain, with a right leg two inches shorter than his left and unable to walk without crutches. Now Mirando...
...groups, reads medical journals diligently, spends hours in his garage practicing surgical procedures with animal bones-and has "ghosted" for surgeons in the past. MacKay agreed not only to repair the cracked bone but also to replace the artificial joint. As he told the Long Island newspaper Newsday: "I kept repeating in my mind, 'Let's get this guy's hip back together right.' He had been under anesthesia since 8 a.m., and could have stopped breathing any time." Indeed, before Mirando left the operating room again, he had been out for more than ten hours...
Along the way, events and people move like unanchored pinwheels, often to dazzling effect. A cast of odd and deranged servants at Andromeda Park is road-show Hellzapoppin: Darcy informs a new housekeeper, "That is the room where our butlers commit suicide and it is always kept locked." When the hero careers through Dublin's fringes, Donleavy reveals the same skill at catching the city's sights and smells that astonished readers of The Ginger Man 20 years...
...checkoff on their term bill for PIRG or any other organization, that alone is sufficient cause for instituting it. Should not we as students have the capacity to assess ourselves for an organization we support? People who feel the term bill is a sacred object which should be kept inaccesible to those who pay it may disagree. But a failure to respond to the expressed preference of the majority, when it is costless to the university and non-binding, is an arrogant denial of students' rights. Mary E. Babic '81 Timothy G. Massad...
...contest began, Scalise's portentious words, spoken before the opening whistle, Harvard "is cold and flat," seemed only too prophetic. Yale's speedy right wing. Betsy Rapperport, and her counterpart on the left, Nancy Erzwhiler, spearheaded Eli attacks which kept the Crimson deep in their own half of the large field...