Word: looped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blind Loop. Dr. Troncelliti opened the man's abdomen and cut the small bowel about 42 inches below the point where it emerges from behind the large bowel (see diagram). He took the free end of this 42-inch loop and stitched it into the side of the transverse colon, leaving the remaining 15 to 20 feet of the small bowel as a nonfunctioning blind loop. When the man recovered from the operation, he continued to overeat, but the food digested in his stomach and duodenum passed more directly into his colon. He absorbed enough protein and starch...
...over the highways, as New York City has done on the westbound approach to the George Washington Bridge. Last week, following that lead, the District of Columbia granted air rights to the Department of Labor to build a $47.6 million office building that will straddle the planned Washington Inner Loop Freeway near the foot of Capitol Hill...
...World War II, the Old Town area of Chicago was a dilapidated slum that was home to a lot of poor Negroes and Puerto Ricans but a pox on the face of the city. Set on the north side of the city just 20 blocks from the Loop, the neighborhood still had its solid old houses with the high-Victorian flare that had been built in the 1880s. But the solid burghers who built them had long since moved to the suburbs. And decay had left the streets lined with seedy bars and sleeping bums...
...fifth day. Two of the eight tiny 25-lb. thrusters jammed. Forced to rely more heavily on the other thrusters, Cooper used up considerable fuel, leaving only 17 Ibs. for the rest of the trip. Ground control suggested that Cooper might indulge in "a couple of rolls and a loop" to celebrate when Gemini 5 cracked the time-in-space record held by Russia's Vostok 5. Cooper said he could not spare the fuel-and besides, "That's all we have been doing all day is rolling and rolling...
...characters less than the narrator, who is one Ayres, an accomplished diplomat. He wants the reader ("dear lady") to get everything straight, and makes delectable use of metaphor, hyperbole, quotation and epigram to facilitate comprehension. The narration itself forms a lacy fabric composed of a series of narrative loops, deftly thrown into the past and winding up where they started. Each loop fills a tiny chapter, and 121 chapters make a calculated pattern that is as satisfying (and sometimes as claustrophobic) as only perfection...