Word: leggings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enough to fight. The nation drafted or enlisted the best men from both major leagues, then told the teams to play ball. They complied by fielding a collection of players as unsuited for baseball as they were for battle. The old Washington Senators used Bert Shepard, who had one leg; the St. Louis Browns started a one-armed outfielder named Pete Gray. The Cincinnati Reds signed a pitcher who didn't have to worry about being drafted; Joe Nuxhall was only...
...chest pains of severe angina, Robert, a 47-year-old chauffeur, recently entered Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. Tests showed that his left main coronary artery was clogged with cholesterol-laden plaque. That made him a likely candidate for a coronary bypass, an operation in which segments of leg vein are sewn onto the arteries to shunt blood around blocked areas. But with Robert's approval, Lenox Hill doctors decided to forgo surgery and try a new and highly experimental alternative: a procedure with the tongue-twisting name of "percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty...
After Robert had been mildly sedated and his leg anesthetized, Cardiologist Simon Stertzer inserted a narrow, hollow Teflon tube called a guiding catheter into an artery in the leg (although an arm artery can be used instead). Working the catheter up through the blood vessels, he reached the opening of the obstructed heart artery. Then Stertzer inserted a narrower and more flexible hollow catheter, with a tiny deflated balloon near its tip, through the Teflon tube and into the heart artery itself. Guided by X rays that determined precisely where the artery was blocked, he positioned the balloon exactly...
...selected cardiac patients in the world to have been treated with the new technique since it was introduced in Switzerland by Dr. Andreas Grüntzig less than a year ago. The procedure grew out of a similar technique that has been used with some success to clear clogged leg arteries. Of the ten so-called balloon dilatations attempted on heart patients at Lenox Hill since March, seven have been successful in clearing soft, non-calcified plaque obstructions and relieving angina. (In three cases, doctors were unable to work the catheters through the arteries to the point of blockage...
...been staked out by sea lions, a huge bull came huffing toward us and made it all too plain that he wanted us off his favorite perch. Our retreat was a prudent move; a few weeks earlier, a German tourist who insisted on holding his ground lost a leg to another enraged bull. The visitors can also inflict damage, even when they have the best of intentions. Biologists on Santa Cruz, one of the 13 major islands in the archipelago, were mystified recently when some of the iguanas they were studying stopped producing offspring. A little investigation provided the explanation...