Word: patches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public gets so jumpy. But about the latest such accident it not only lifted secrecy but has made a color motion picture snowing the tricky and dangerous work of repairing a reactor at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The film shows dozens of scientists and technicians working for nine months to patch two small holes that had been burned in the 5/16-in. zirconium shell of the reactor's fiercely radioactive core...
...only a mass of flesh and viscera but also a piece of geology-a part of history, a part of the earth. As for scale, Dubuffet would have none of it. A painting could be both a vast landscape and at the same time a tiny patch of dust seen through a microscope. Nor was the beholder ever supposed to know just what Dubuffet's images were supposed to be. "I am pleased," he said, "to see life in trouble, going insane-hesitating between certain forms that we recognize as belonging to our familiar surroundings and others that...
...artery together and stitch them: 2) make a slit in the side of the artery, insert a special instrument, ream out the fatty debris and close the incision with a couple of stitches; 3) slit the artery lengthwise along the blocked stretch and put a long oval plastic patch in the wall to increase its diameter; 4) make an artificial detour for the blood by splicing a length of plastic tube into the artery, above and below the blocked section...
...than their best to their own company, needlessly exposes the company to the peril of stockholders' suits and a damaged public reputation. To avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing, many a U.S. executive could well recall an old Chinese proverb: "When passing through your neighbor's melon patch, do not stoop to tie your shoe...
Looking at the current African leaders, Essien-Udom contrasts Toure, whom he calls a revolutionist, wanting to change the whole of society, with Nkrumah, a reformist who only wants to patch things up, here and there. As to which of these kinds of change he thinks Nigeria needs most, Essien-Udom merely answers: "I am not a politician...