Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, before Dick Lewis could get a physician, the unexpectant mother was in the third stage of labor, in their bedroom. Lewis had never delivered a baby, but he had trained rescue squads and had often shown a childbirth film. He unwound the cord from the baby's neck, laid out mother and child (a 7-lb. 9-oz. boy) side by side, .then called one of the ambulance units he had trained. An attendant cut the cord...
...some cases, enlargement is the result of infection (usually in the bladder, which rests like an upside-down flask with its neck in the upper part of the prostate). These infections cause acute urinary difficulties, which subside when the infection yields to sulfa drugs or antibiotics...
Heller can do this because he has a vast knowledge about most businesses, is back-stopped by a staff of experts. Four hundred strong, they breathe gently down a borrower's neck, go over his books thoroughly three or four times a year, shoot out a barrage of advice and warning that keeps companies on their toes. Through this method, Heller not only protects his own money but often prevents companies Tom becoming overextended, accumulating too much inventory, falling into ill-advised deals. He sometimes makes bad guesses: he backed Sydney Albert's overexpanded Bellanca empire before...
...this idea first hit me," said Steve ("the thinking man's comic") Allen, "I got that certain instinctive chill. The hair on the back of my neck almost stood up. The idea was that good." Allen's brainstorm: a 19-minute "Meeting of the Minds" inserted in his hour-long TV variety show, featuring Allen and actors playing Aristotle, Dostoevsky, Montaigne, Hegel, Freud and Clarence Darrow, the lot of them hashing over the wisdom of the ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker...
...bone and joint specialist) may be the first physician to detect some cases of lung cancer, Dr. Paul E. Dee of Rockford, Ill. told the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Explanation: cancer in the apex of the lung is often first signaled by pain in the shoulder, arm or neck...