Word: opener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offensive he launched last February has proved in many ways the most arduous of his career. His mission: to root out wholesale pilferage and embezzlement in the 650,000-man Korean army, which has reached so enthusiastic a pitch that an irate U.S. Defense Department report said that open black-marketeering in "virtually every commodity required to support a military machine"-short of tanks and artillery-was "beyond description...
...found William Flanagan in a Philadelphia gutter, he was barely conscious and obviously suffering from long exposure to the frosty night air. At Hahnemann Hospital, Intern Edward Brunner was still examining Flanagan, 43, a 6-ft.-3-in. laborer, when the patient's heart stopped. Dr. Brunner slit open Flanagan's chest, and began massaging his heart. (It was the first time that Dr. Brunner. 30, had had to open a chest.) Surgeon Frank Sterba put a tube down the patient's windpipe, hooked it to a mechanical ventilator to take care of his breathing...
...failed. So did electric shock. The trouble. Dr. Francis Coughlin Jr. decided, was that although heated blankets and hot-water bottles were warming Flanagan's outer layers, the blood in the heart was still chilled. So he had six quarts of warm, sterile saline solution poured into the open chest, onto the heart, while he and his colleagues continued the massage. Flanagan's heart responded with two or three normal beats, then fluttered wildly again. There was no time to heat more sterile saline. Dr. Coughlin ordered pots and pans, buckets and basins filled with warm tap water...
About 250 students will be housed in each of the two new colleges. Their rooms, hardly any two of them similar, are variations on a basic polygonal plan, look out on courts and open passageways that Saarinen feels are "not unlike a small Italian hill-town street." The interiors, done in stone, oak and plaster, will be designed to suggest the scholar's study rather than the clubman's rumpus room...
Misplaced Modifier. In Louisville, while trying energetically to pronounce a difficult word in a Russian-language class, University of Louisville Coed Brooke Johnston dislocated her jaw, had her mouth shut by a doctor, could not open it again for a fortnight, had no recourse but to drop the course...