Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TONY BURKE Palm Springs, Calif...
...additional senses are valuable in medicine, especially in diseases of the nervous system. Example: a lab assistant who took glassware out of a sterilizer developed blisters on his hands though he felt no heat on handling the bottles. Neurological examination showed no sense of heat or pain in his palms, but other senses were normal. Diagnosis: syringomyelia, a disease of the spinal cord. Its site was located because the neurologists knew that with only the hands affected, the trouble must be where sensory nerves from the palm reach the spinal cord...
...called his energetic shoveling "more fun than anything I'm doing in the office." told Susan she would "be an old lady before this is a big tree." At week's end he drove to Gettysburg, there inspected his prize herd of Black Angus cattle and attended Palm Sunday services at Gettysburg Presbyterian Church...
...Elizabeth and her husband. First it was decided that they should sleep in Napoleon Bonaparte's huge bronze and mahogany bed; then, perhaps because of Napoleon's hatred of England, the idea was abandoned. Landscape gardeners lined the Avenue de l'Ópéra with palm trees and changed its name for the occasion to Boulevard Méditerranéen. The managers of Maxim's, a favored haunt of Elizabeth's own playful great-grandfather, Edward VII, completed plans for three days of all-English menus, to the unconcealed horror of gastronomes. Maxim...
...Brahms concerto in Miami Beach, famed Violinist Isaac Stern, deeply annoyed by an unwanted metronome, insistent and offbeat, stalked off the stage, announcing: "That noise disturbs me. I cannot play with that competition!" His offending accompanist: a cricket that had taken up lodging in a nearby potted palm. After a five-minute search, workmen located the chirper, removed it so that Musician Stern, who had been mopping his brow backstage, could again return as solo soloist...