Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pierce Theobald, an ear, nose and throat specialist, added another count to the indictment. One kind of deafness is increasing, he believes, as a result of the haphazard use of antibiotics in colds. If there is a middle-ear infection, the drugs may mask it, and then part of the ear fills up with fluid anyway. If this is not drained, it may solidify and impair hearing. The only solution, said Dr. Theobald, is to puncture the eardrum and remove the substance...
...been at it for almost half a century. He began in 1915, by taking flat wooden pieces and assembling them to form a portrait head. Says he: "I saw that I could make a head without chipping from a block or using clay to form a mask." The simplicity of the idea appealed to Gabo. Gradually he and a group of friends worked out a new art movement, putting together simple, geometric shapes-squares, circles and ellipses -into more or less complex, graceful structures...
...inside the vehicles waited patiently, pressing pale faces against the glass. Several drank wine from bottles, some joked and shouted; most were silent. The Reds released 50 South Koreans first, and they walked stolidly to their reception center. Then a Chinese medical attendant in a white coat, surgical mask and black boots threw open the double doors of an ambulance, and the first Americans appeared. They were wearing blue jackets and jumper pants, blue caps, and they carried blue blankets-specially issued for the occasion. A big sign erected by G.I.s told them where to go: "Welcome gate to freedom...
Leeches at the Veins. Inside the Kremlin, working on their 73-year-old patient with all the artifices of medicine, the doctors tried penicillin, oxygen mask, glucose injections for nourishment, caffeine for stimulation. They even reached desperately backward for a remedy: leeches to suck at the old man's veins...
Camphor & Leeches. By their own elaborately detailed case history, the doctors did everything possible for their prophet. When his breathing became more than usually labored, they clapped an oxygen mask on him. Since he was comatose and could take no food, they fed him a glucose solution through a vein. To guard against pneumonia, they saw to it that his position in bed was changed often, and they injected penicillin. They injected caffeine to stimulate Stalin's nervous system. Following an old idea (which most U.S. doctors have abandoned), they injected camphor to boost his heart...