Word: pea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally, 24 hours before the allotted deadline, the grinning Russians appeared at Sandkrug Bridge in a red-painted civilian bus with a bilious, pea-green roof. As the bus passed through without incident, the ruckus subsided. Far from solution, however, was the chronic indecision among the Allies, who on a relatively minor issue took two weeks to:1) agree that there was a problem, 2) decide to do something about...
...come. These patients, like famed LIFE Photographer Margaret Bourke-White, were operated on by techniques that Dr. Cooper, 39, now considers outmoded. The patients he really wanted to show off were the next to be presented: a housewife and a schoolgirl on whom he operated by freezing a pea-sized portion of the brain...
...hormone is the exception for which the human body apparently insists on its own brand. (Monkeys' hormones would probably work, but the glands are too small.) Since HGH cannot yet be synthesized, the only source of supply is man. A few medical examiners seek authorization to remove the pea-sized pituitary at autopsies on both adults and stillborn babies. The tiny glands are sent to one of three university laboratories. There, after five or six days of exquisitely delicate chemical processes, each gland yields about one twenty-five-thousandth of an ounce of HGH. Because of its scarcity...
Blue Puff. Physicist Kiyo Tomiyasu, 42, technical director of General Electric Co.'s laser lab, is particularly proud of the ease with which one of his lasers has drilled holes in a pea-sized black synthetic diamond. Diamonds, which are the hard est things known to man, have been drilled before, but the process is difficult and time consuming. Dr. Tomiyasu (Nevada-born; Harvard doctorate) did the job on his diamond with laser light. Each hole was drilled by a flash that lasted only one two-thousandth of a second. Pinpointed by a lens on the crystallized carbon...
...takes a long, slow pull of bourbon. "Funny things happen t'me alla time," he says reflectively. "Dunno why. Dunno what I'm gonna do next. I just-live fer kicks!" And he lays back his ears and laughs like a jackass that can smell the old pea patch...