Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hazards within the pattern of brain surgery, Dr. Freeman has undergone a great change of heart. He has fallen completely out of love with the prefrontal lobotomy. in which a knife is inserted through a hole drilled in the temple, though he performed 624 such operations, most of them with Watts. Now he is a devotee of the transorbital lobotomy. in which approach to the frontal lobe is made through the eye socket (TIME, Sept...
...Quick, the Knife!" Every now & then, even in the best of operating rooms and often with patients who seem to be the best surgical risks, the heart stops or flutters uselessly. Since there is no way of foretelling such catastrophes, said Dr. Julian Johnson of Philadelphia's University Hospital, every operating theater should have emergency equipment; oxygen, an electric "defibrillator" to shock the heart back into action (TIME, Feb. n, 1952), and the right surgical instruments for opening the patient's chest...
...stillness of the book-lined chamber gives it a musty, scholarly flavor. There are books for every type of student in the 6,250-book reference collection. Prison ethnologists, for instance, delight in the Dictionary of the Underworld which sets into plain language such technical phrases as slice (knife wound) and to slip on the heat (v., trans; to shool a person, especially to death). Sociologists specializing in higher strata may find more help in the Who's Who of Polish Americans, Librarians, Texans, or even the Argentinian Quien en Quien. Detrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage provides excellent...
Choice of Weapons. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., Ramon Toledo, carrying a knife when arrested, was fined $40 for tearing an 8-in. gash on his wife's arm-with his teeth...
...knife and gun and fatal blast...