Word: larynxed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cram her larynx, lung, and liver...
...Robert J. Huebner, head of PHS's laboratory for infectious diseases, said: "We have to define the problem as 'acute respiratory disease, upper and lower.' The 'upper' refers to disease at the level of the larynx or above, such as laryngitis, nasal pharyngitis and simple rhinitis. 'Lower' covers tracheitis, bronchitis and pneumonitis. Then we have to identify them further as mild, moderate or severe, and as with fever or without...
Rhythm & Pitch. Ernst Krenek's atonal Santa Fe Time Table was in itself enough to put a tremolo in the larynx of most singers. A long, desert-dry work, its lyrics is a list of all the station names between Albuquerque and Los Angeles* The chorus rattled down the right-of-way like a highballing freight, then proceeded to an even more formidable test: Schonberg's late works, Dreimal...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories' transistorized, electronic larynx, for people who have had their voice boxes removed in surgery and have never mastered the difficult art of speaking with the gullet. Contoured to fit the hand and powered by tiny batteries, the artificial larynx is pressed against the flesh of the throat, transmits vibrations into the lower end of the vocal tract. These vibrations can be converted into voiced sounds of speech in a normal manner-by use of the tongue, teeth and lips. But because no flow of air is required, the user can speak with the electronic larynx while...
...After two days of near-mute anxiety. Tucker was ready to pack and go home. At last, however, it was determined that Trencherman Tucker had wolfed down a plate of scrambled eggs with a hidden ingredient-a chip of enamel that had lodged in his throat and sabotaged his larynx. Once it was removed, he regained his voice, drew mighty ovations and endless curtain calls from the audiences in B.A.'s old Colon Theater...