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...into the chest of Edna, 37, a housewife who had had rheumatic fever at 18 and was now suffering from scarring and narrowing of the mitral valve in her heart. As the scalpel made swift but precise cuts and laid bare a rib, Dr. Artusio asked: "Can you nod your head?" Edna nodded. Dr. Glenn lifted a pair of shears and snipped out the rib. Then he cut deeper, through the layers of the heart sac, until the pulsing organ itself was laid bare. He plunged his gloved finger into it and wiggled his fingertip, so that it tore some...
...Yale fan, always prone to prejudice, noted the passing of these three with varying degrees of regret--the first was pleasant if non-essential, the second important if not indispensable, the third, at this particular point indispensable. And thus, with a nod and a shiver at this good Yale team and its huge line, it would appear that for the second successive season an underdog Crimson team will upset the Bulldogs...
Sullivan, twisting about to catch the reaction of the presiding Mayor, got a favorable nod. He loudly requested the definite number of policemen twice more. Ready stood by his conviction that "enough" was a number. At this point Sullivan stood up and leaned across his desk toward Chief Ready...
...Nationalists will choose between two principal candidates to succeed Malan: Finance Minister Nicolaas Havenga, 72, and long-necked Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 61, a onetime ostrich farmer who runs the Nationalist Party machine and who is even more fanatically racialist than Daniel Malan. Last week retiring Dr. Malan gave his nod to Havenga, the more moderate of the two but nonetheless a man who could be trusted to hew to the harsh line laid out by Preacher Malan...
...school to the district until the red tape of establishing a regular school could be untangled. Then the school could be reconverted into its component houses and sold. When Architect Victor Abrahamson showed them the plans for Oddstad's project, the local school board quickly gave him the nod. A San Francisco bank lent the money, and Oddstad's construction crews rushed the school to completion...