Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connally's superficial thigh wound onto his stretcher. The bullet offered sufficient grounds to make the single-bullet theory suspect. Experts reported that a 6.5-mm. slug such as Oswald used would normally weigh 160 or 161 grains when fired. Doctors had found roughly three grains of metal in Connally's wrist and thigh. But the spent bullet (labeled Exhibit 399) weighed a hefty 158.6 grains when examined-more than it should have, considering the amount of metal left in Connally's body. The nose of the spent bullet was not blunted, and several medical men testified...
...puritanical Communist General Chu Teh, whose political officer was a plump, moonfaced youngster named Chen Yi, now Peking's Foreign Minister. Many of Chu's 40,000 troops were armed with bows and arrows, and his artillery consisted of hollow logs loaded with rocks and scrap metal. The troopers sang Chinese versions of Dixie and raided Nationalist camps on feast days in order to get food. But when Chu's forces joined up with the neighboring Red bands of a guerrilla leader named Mao Tse-tung, Lin was exposed to a guerrilla technique that was later...
...inner parts to increase its reverberation and enhance its timbre. They altered the length, size and layout of the strings, redesigned the bridge, which transmits vibrations from the "speaking length" of the strings to the sounding board, and devised new pins for anchoring the strings to the metal frame. Periodically concert pianists stopped off at the Baldwin factory in Cincinnati to test the evolving instrument. "Make it more sexy," advised one. Try for tones "like smoke rings," suggested another...
Bunnies in London's Playboy Club are being fired for loafing. Construction workers have been known to take breaks to play soccer in the street. Automobile sheet-metal stampers linger in their locker room calculating the football pools, while the foreman hopefully chants, "Back to the benches, mates." The title of Peter Sellers' 1959 film, I'm All Right, Jack, satirizing the idleness in "the farewell state," has become part of England's language, summing up all the nation's cosseted, truculent, archaic featherbedding...
...more advanced instruments use throwaway, presterilized cartridges. The carefully engineered instruments are lighter and remarkably versatile. They can fire as many as four different sizes of sutures in as many different patterns. The stapler itself looks like a stainless steel monkey wrench with a pistol grip. Setting its minuscule metal staples in suture lines that are doubled for safety, it can clamp together as much as 3½ inches of tissue with a single squeeze of the surgeon's hand. It can save upwards of half an hour for complicated stomach or lung operations...